The Idolbuster

JANUARY 17, 2013

Sabina” was a product manager working in lifescience industry who was part of a project that had to make that very choice. When the original product was scoped, it was designed to meet a set of unmet customer needs, and she created a healthy revenue forecast to justify the expense of development.

NPV 36

NPV Sample Project Metrics 36

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

To do this, we combine two separate frameworks: the first is the Three Horizon strategic model developed by McKinsey. Since the Three Horizons represent different levels of uncertainty, they need to be managed and valued differently. The two together, NPV + OV, provide an inclusive but not inflated valuation. Alexander B.

NPV 15

NPV Net Present Value Price Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. Anyone who has had to make the argument for an investment knows the basic tool involved: a Net Present Value (NPV) calculation.

NPV 15

NPV Short-term Discount Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.)

Management 13

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

For years, AWS has invested in driving developer and company adoption of its platform by driving down prices and introducing low cost features to make developer’s lives easier. That ecosystem investment reinforces the value proposition and drives more developer adoption. Consider a business like Amazon Web Services.

Collison 14

Collison Net Present Value Company Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Next time you're deciding about a big investment, NPV can help you make a more informed decision. In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Related Video. The Refresher: Net Present Value. Bain recently completed research on workforce productivity.

ROE 16

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Declaring he’d cull up to 100 brands — many of which he’d acquired and developed — P&G CEO A.G. “Importantly, this will be a much simpler, much less complex company of leading brands that’s easier to manage and operate.” Should management refine and dig deeper into existing 80/20 KPIs?

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Brand DCF IRR NPV 9