Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

My colleagues and I at Bain & Company have been tracking this for forty years, and we have never seen companies losing their leadership positions as quickly as they are today. real revenue and profit growth and earning their cost of capital has steadily declined. A similar pattern hold for airlines. And for telecom.

Creativity 15

Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

Human Capital 16

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A CEO's job is about resource allocation with a goal of earning a return in excess of the opportunity cost of capital. The challenge is figuring out how to allocate human and financial capital to its best and highest use for the long term. Value drivers include sales growth, operating profit margin, and investment requirements.)

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Price CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Investors punish companies with a short-term orientation by applying higher discount rates to them, which increases the cost of capital for those companies. In contrast, companies with a long-term orientation are rewarded with a lower cost of capital, which allows them to afford more innovation—a virtuous cycle.

Short-term 9

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 9

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

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 that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50