Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Therefore, it’s a trusted and proven way to receive a consistent return. Traditionally, stock markets offer the highest rates of return. This traditional option allows you to invest in innovation to bring you much profit in a short period. Yet, generally, they have been showing an upward trend since the 40s.

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Short-term Real Estate Long-term Strategy 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

The notion that innovation and failure go hand-in-hand has become popular of late. It begins with the argument that many important innovations involved taking risks with potentially large costs but, most critically, completely unknown upsides. That is, allowing more failure should increase the overall rate of return.

Rate of Return 15

Rate of Return Innovation Learning-by-Doing Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. They are acutely attuned to disruptive innovation, and their size makes them nimble.

Hedge 16

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 16

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. The VC industry has failed to innovate.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Incentives 22

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

The arguments in favor of strategic cash are compelling—especially when economic conditions, market regulations, technology innovations, and tax policies are highly fluid and uncertain—but CFOs also should take steps to allay investor concerns. How Should You Approach Strategic Cash?

Company 15

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As “better, cheaper, faster, smaller, more convenient, and more personalized” became the new norm, the ability to innovate with committed employees and agile processes became critical. But it’s not good at innovation. The other economy—the Creative Economy—is an economy of continuous innovation and transformation.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. If the social enterprise delivers on the promise of reducing the recidivism rate relative to current best practice, the investors receive their capital back and a capped but attractive rate of return.

Bond 14

Bond Education Finance Video 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Basically, unable to innovate their core offering, airlines have figured out a way to innovate in the way costs are allocated. Starting in the early 1990s, Southwest stock delivered among the best rates of return in the history of American business. There are clearly still people who deliberately choose not to fly.

Airlines 13

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

They've just figured out that doing for others delivers a better rate of return to self than a Maserati. We confuse everyone and everything by use of this word "selfless" to describe something that is actually self-fulfilling. The monks may be smarter or more enlightened than the rest of us, but they aren't more selfless.

Merton 15

Merton Self-aware Rate of Return Class 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Investors will not only have the potential for a decent rate of return but can be secure in the knowledge that they’re "part of the social mission to cure.". SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. Lo proposes a $30 billion fund, with both institutional and retail investors.

Marketing 8

Marketing Rate of Return Letter Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Apple’s Tim Cook spoke as well, saying “the time for inaction has passed,” and commenting that we don’t need to accept any “tradeoff between economy and environment — both are doable if you innovate and set the bar high enough.”. As it turns out, that bar doesn’t have to be so high after all.

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IRR Energy Tips Commitment 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

companies have enjoyed supernormal rates of return. And even if some firms have been stuck at the top of supposedly dynamic industries (Microsoft, Apple) for a rather long time, others have used innovation to rise rapidly (Facebook, Twitter). An increasing number of U.S.

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ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

For companies that fully embrace this shift, investing in data and analytics can yield a higher rate of return than other recent technologies, surpassing even the computer investment cycle in the 1980s.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

Soon, All Saints will add another innovation: an online tool that parishioners can use to make the church aware of their particular talents and interests. That’s a rate of return most investors would take in a heartbeat, and it bespeaks the commitment that comes with deepening engagement, not continuing “membership.”

Drucker 8

Drucker Objective Self-aware Rate of Return 8

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2023

By calculating the expenses of training and comparing them to the benefits of enhancing workers’ career opportunities and lowering unemployment rates, the overall societal rate of return was found to be approximately 10%.

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Career Training Rate of Return Education 119

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. In our research, we’re beginning to see signs that Wall Street is being threatened by similar forces. on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

But the incentives of the adopter and the technology developer are typically not aligned: while the technology developer has all the incentive to sell as many units as possible, the adopter would only like to make investments with the highest rates of return.

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Business Model Technology Mission Statement Rate of Return 10