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Case Study: Should a Hotelier Invest in a New Kind of Online Travel Agency?

Harvard Business Review

” “I have Carly running the ROI — both short-term and long-term,” he said, referring to Carly Janssen, his finance director, “but I have to say that I find it intriguing. ” Negative NPV. “You can see that if you go three years out, the NPV is still negative on our investment.