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Don’t Let Your Company Get Trapped by Success

Harvard Business Review

This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations. Our research shows that U.S. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. This is a perspective taken by my colleagues at consultancy Innosight. Take a doctor’s office.