Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

We have identified how hospitals’ budgeting systems have erected three distinct barriers to the adoption of technology. These barriers, however, can be overcome by changing how hospitals acquire new technology and by providing incentives to units to use digital innovations to provide more effective and efficient care.

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Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

The Refresher: Net Present Value. While not fully analogous, if Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek holds its equities for, say, 8 years on average while quantitative arbitrage hedge fund Renaissance Technologies holds them for milliseconds at a time, the Temasek capital is more valuable than Renaissance’s.

Hedge 12

Hedge Short-term Long-term NPV 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

While on the surface, the dirty business of fossil fuels is nothing like Silicon Valley, many in the oil business have moved beyond the standard net present value (NPV) model for assessing the merit of investments. What if I suggested that the best place to look for answers could be the shale oil fields of North Dakota?

NPV 10

NPV Net Present Value Industry Video 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Everyone always wants new equipment — new computers or other hot technologies. Do you think they’re going to do a net present value (NPV) analysis that shows they don’t need that computer? The two founding partners were both engineers who loved technology. Finance & Accounting Tool. Joe Knight.

Finance 8

Finance NPV CFO ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

This would be a breakthrough communication technology, with the power of connecting an excluded and fragmented continent with itself, with the world, and to this newly emerging phenomenon — that none of us quite understood at the time — called the Internet. I told them my story. They agreed that the Mandela proposal was nonsense.

Net Present Value 9

Net Present Value Politics Analysis Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To prioritize projects, for instance, the ALL team could have forecast future cash flows for every potential investment and ranked all proposals on the basis of their net present value. But like most complicated models, that approach would have had many disadvantages relative to simple rules.

Strategy 9

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

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. Cultivate ambidexterity.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. The analyst can then top that valuation with the option values of moonshot projects.

Report 8

Report GAAP Company Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

You know, the future value of money, the present value of money — money today is worth more than in the future because you can invest it and get interest. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. This stochastic discount factor model is the modern economic update of those, correct?

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 9