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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

” New markets According to UNCTAD, the green technology sector has the potential to create a market worth over $9.5 Green frontier technologies, such as electric vehicles, solar and wind energy, and green hydrogen, are projected to attain a market worth of $2.1

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. This example illustrates that investors consider information beyond just earnings as value-relevant. What caused this slump?

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

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. Once they understood the rules and their underlying rationale, ALL's employees generated a series of innovative proposals based on what they had to work with.

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How to Choose the Ideas Your Company Should Invest In

Harvard Business Review

My last post described how Innosight follows a three-stage process to evaluate investment proposals from outside entrepreneurs. Can we get to the market without any technological miracles? Note what isn't part of the decision: an idea's net present value or return on investment.

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