Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

"Leverage" is one of the more interesting and difficult concepts to fully grasp in all of finance, but it's important for anyone that borrows or plans to borrow money to understand. Combining the two suggests that the party which borrows has the leverage — they have the power and advantage over others. Yet many people jump into risky financial situations without considering the potential consequences. The second is that the asset underlying the leverage holds its value.

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Financial Leverage Film Class Fixed Costs 15

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2018

There’s a ton of leverage that comes with a designated leadership position. Just like financial leverage, leadership leverage can yield amazing outcomes when used well or disastrous outcomes when used poorly. There’s a hero myth that can build up around leaders. The great leaders stand alone, indomitable in the face of adversity, accomplishing their goals in the face of all obstacles. The last thing they need is help from anyone else.

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Financial Leverage Blog Conference Executive Coaching 152

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A seemingly small change in any one of these can threaten your viability and weaken your financial leverage. Welcome to the October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Diana Peterson-More shared Covid Communication: Spread a Little Kindness. With Words.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 363

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Since the primary purpose of innovation for private companies is financial impact, " Return on Innovation Investment (ROII) is a reasonable, aggregate measuring stick for innovation — you can calculate ROII by taking the profits or cash flows produced by innovation and dividing that figure by the cumulative investment required to create those returns. Financial leverage (assets over equity). Who is the world's most innovative company?

Disaggregation 15

Disaggregation Review Benchmarking Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. I'm also an owner. A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. We put our money in because we saw an opportunity to turn a struggling company around and secure a high ROI. We did that.

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McKinsey Armstrong Chemicals ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

For investors, this suggests that there is substantial value from analyzing non-financial data and incorporating it into their decisions. Less so for financial institutions or healthcare companies. With this intuition we could hypothesize about the ESG investments that would be financially important for different industries, but until recently we had no objective and systematic way of making those judgments.

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Financial Leverage Construction Industry Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

To estimate the effect of a CEO’s social network’s diversity on their firm’s value, we used ordinary least square regression models to control for other variables that could potentially change firm value, such as firm size, profitability, financial leverage, investment intensity, and corporate governance. Bernhard Lang/Getty Images. Leaders today hear a lot about the importance of having good networks.

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Sample Financial Leverage Review Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies.

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ROE NPV GDP Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Since the primary purpose of innovation for private companies is financial impact, " Return on Innovation Investment (ROII) is a reasonable, aggregate measuring stick for innovation — you can calculate ROII by taking the profits or cash flows produced by innovation and dividing that figure by the cumulative investment required to create those returns. Financial leverage (assets over equity). Who is the world's most innovative company?

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Review Benchmarking Financial Leverage 8