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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

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. You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses.

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What If Investors Who Held Their Shares Longer Got More Voting Power?

Harvard Business Review

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.” Next time you're deciding about a big investment, NPV can help you make a more informed decision. Related Video. The Refresher: Net Present Value.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.) The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean?” Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.