Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

This has led to high levels of AWS specific investment from innovators like CloudHealth Technologies, Qubole, Mapbox, and the like. That ecosystem investment reinforces the value proposition and drives more developer adoption. How can you continuously defer short term profitability to grow your network effect? So is Facebook.

Collison 10

Collison Net Present Value Company Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Rail accounted for only 20% of long-haul shipments in Brazil, compared with 80% in most countries. Any proposal, the rules said, should: remove obstacles to growing revenues, minimize up-front expenditure, provide benefits immediately (rather than paying off in the long term), and. reuse existing resources.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Today, the average cost of equity capital sits at close to half that: just 8% for the roughly 1600 companies comprising the Value Line Index. So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. In these circumstances, strategies that generate faster growth create more value for most companies than those that improve profit margins.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Japan, Infosys, and Sagentia in the UK.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50