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How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Kaufman, Stephen P.; Shih, WillyArticle HBS-R0801FStrategyMost companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices. Discounted cash flow and net present value, as commonly used, underestimate the real returns and benefits of proceeding with an investment. Most executives compare the cash flows from inno...Starting at €8.20
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LumiSmart (B): Answering the Call for Negawatts
Stewart Thornhill; Ellen M. BrownCase IVEY-9B11M032-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis supplement to LumiSmart (A): Answering the Call for Negawatts explores how the development of the clean technology might be financed.Starting at €5.74
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LumiSmart (A): Answering the Call for Negawatts
Stewart Thornhill; Ellen M. BrownCase IVEY-9B11M031-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe president and chief executive officer (CEO) of an established Toronto-based boutique consulting firm is in the process of expanding his company’s core competency from the largely mature tech sector to the new and rapidly growing field of clean technology. During this time, the CEO is introduced to an inventor and an entrepreneur who have developed a waveform technology that they claim will instantaneously reduce electricity consumption by 30 ...Starting at €8.20