Financial analysis

The key is knowing what your top price is—and having the discipline to stick to it.

Strategies for ensuring stakeholder voices are heard and ESG goals are met.

The phrase “fast growth” conjures up a picture of a high-technology company serving markets that have seemingly inexhaustible appetites for its products. Panting investors and rising stock prices are generally part of the image. A typical example of such a high-growth company is Tandy Corporation, owner of the Radio Shack chain and manufacturer of the […]

Few economic decisions are as difficult as those involving the choice between present and future consumption. Some people, unable to place much faith in the future, happily borrow to fund present pleasures; others, with longer time horizons, are wary of such “fly now, pay later” policies. They fear that the required payments, when viewed up […]

Start with pay flexibility, budget management support, and retirement planning.

Shareholders are getting serious about sustainability.

This is a challenging time to be a CEO. Around the world, economic growth is slow, political uncertainty undermines attempts to develop long-term plans,...

The challenges are organizational.

Risk heat maps can miss critical weaknesses.

Since the financial crisis of 2008, there has been widespread agreement on the need for public companies to build value for the long term. Nonetheless,...

What do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy.

The Association for Financial Professionals surveyed its members about the assumptions built into the financial models they use to evaluate investment...

Digital financial companies are making big claims about financial inclusion - but are failing to disclose data that backs up their efforts.

Most 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?...

Smaller, privately held firms should conduct a detailed valuation at least once a year. Here's how.

Every day, at almost every company, strategy is being hijacked by numbers. Because strategy is abstract, employees often mentally replace it with the...

But it’s the best way to create value.

When service companies put employees and customers first, a radical shift occurs in the way they manage and measure success.

Less than a decade after the frantic merger activity of the late 1960s, we are again in the midst of a major wave of corporate acquisitions. In contrast to the 1960s, when acquirers were mainly freewheeling conglomerates, the merger movement in the 1970s includes such long-established giants of U.S. industry as General Electric, Gulf Oil, […]

Promising corporate blueprints are often hard to understand—and too few market analysts are willing to make the effort.