Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” ” Laying out their data, they find that long-term oriented companies create more financial value and more jobs. The Refresher: Net Present Value.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term NPV 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk.

Management 8

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded. How do they do it?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50