Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. ” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.”

Finance 8

Finance Skills EBITDA Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. These value-increasing actions are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but it is likely that certain firms emphasize some of the actions more than others. (We

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50