Coaching Tip
DECEMBER 3, 2014
Three times more likely to incorporate an integrated learning journey versus a course-list approach when developing their leaders. Conversely, organizations that focus heavily on managerial responsibilities report less job satisfaction, higher turnover and lower engagement among leaders. .
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Of course, investing in projects with a hard-to-measure payback — such as a new marketing campaign or entry into new geographic or customer markets — is a normal part of business strategy. And making choices that do have measurable, but longer-term, strategic value should be par for the course as well.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2014
There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. But they are too small in size and too few in number to make up for the vast majority of funds that fail to generate attractive returns (or any returns) for investors.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 14, 2011
That is, allowing more failure should increase the overall rate of return. Of course, having more experiments, and failed experiments at that, will provide a necessary ingredient for that task. The difficulty with this argument is that it does not tell us what mechanism we should use to tolerate more failure.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 31, 2014
In the process he discovered a fundamental problem in American K-12 education — that the traditional lock-step approach to mass public education of everyone taking the same courses at the same age in the same sequence, did not work for millions of kids. If not, the investors receive a lower return and risk losing their capital.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 18, 2015
For instance, despite the prominent role that discounted cash flow valuation methods play in academic finance courses, few PE investors use discounted cash flow or net present value techniques to evaluate investments. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 13, 2013
These data were used to anticipate an economic rate of return, with the primary outcome metric being increases in farmer incomes, along with impact metrics such as a reduction in regional poverty rates. Once a contract is signed, a monitoring and evaluation process kicks in to allow for mid-course correction.
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