Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

The results of this paper provide support to an earlier article (“ The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy ”) where we described a framework that companies could use to create value by doing good. Not all social and environmental initiatives are created equal.

Financial Leverage 8

Financial Leverage Construction Industry Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. This phase was loosely called leverage buy out (LBO) from about 1979 to 1990 and included over 2,000 LBOs. In this phase, the acquired property is not just managed, but transformed.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

We also found that this greater firm value comes from better corporate innovations and successful diversified M&As. These connections had to be at least senior managers or higher positions to be considered. If this was the case, then we would expect the firm to demonstrate greater innovation.

Diversity 10

Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations. The result: a shortage of good growth ideas.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14