Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In essence, Bedore was saying that Walmart recognizes that it can help take the solar market to scale, thus lowering its costs in the future. Of course, investing in projects with a hard-to-measure payback — such as a new marketing campaign or entry into new geographic or customer markets — is a normal part of business strategy. We worship internal rates of return (IRR) to our detriment. Corporate social responsibility Sustainability Wal-mart IRR

Payback Period 12

Payback Period ROI Supply Chain Rate of Return 12

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

A veritable alphabet soup (ROA, RONA, ROIC, ROCE, IRR, MVA, APV, and the like) exists to measure our financial capital. In other words, they connected with people who could help them with customer issues, such as staff in finance, legal, pricing, or marketing. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource.

ROCE 47

ROCE RONA IRR ROIC 47

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Private Market Valuations aren't Great Indicators of Public Returns The final reason for trepidation is probably the most important. Since his fund's investment, a series of very well publicized auctions on secondary markets have driven Facebook's private market valuation to over 85B. The problem for most Main Street investors is that they don't necessarily appreciate the dynamics of the private markets. I am not pessimistic about Facebook's future.

IPO 13

IPO IRR Advertising Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Indeed, companies focusing on those 20% customer segments that generate 80% of sales and/or profitability and/or sustainable growth markets and innovate differently from those who seek to serve everyone well. The demands of 80/20 criteria shifts the innovation emphasis away from more traditional financial metrics around DCF , IRR , and NPV and toward better understanding of how novelty preserves, protects, and extends the 80/20 franchise.

DCF 8

DCF IRR NPV Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

and an IRR of 27% for those companies with the most aggressive, science-based goals and actions on climate. Government doesn’t have a great track record of global negotiations on climate policy, but local and regional action is more robust , with 46 carbon markets globally covering a small but respectable 12% of emissions. This week, CEOs and world leaders met at the UN to talk climate.

IRR 8

IRR Energy Committee Commitment 8