Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. To make sure they're comparing apples to apples, they discount those future cash flows to arrive at their net present value.

CAPM 14

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars. Because the fact that value is not guaranteed in the future lessens value in the present. This reduction in value is present and represents a cost today , not tomorrow.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

It might be tempting to turn to the highest starting salary paid, which typically goes to the graduate with the most experience in the most competitive market, who often earns crazy money their first year. million EBITDA company for 4x paying $6 million and using 50% debt financing. That average is actually hard to nail down, however.

Consultative 8

Consultative CAGR EBITDA CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. The highest estimate that we could find from recent, peer-reviewed studies was a 1.08

NPV 13

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13