Assets Cash Flow Energy 
Chief Executive
JULY 26, 2022
Instead, when a given site or plant makes a capex request, that request is judged only in terms of the anticipated change in cash flow of making—or not making—the investment in isolation. They spend their last dime on their worst assets because that’s where they believe they will get money back the fastest. It’s not fact-based.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2016
There are people who disagree with that adage, of course, some saying that cash and cash flow are more important (and too often ignored). Let’s start with return on assets. What is Return on Assets (ROA)? “ROA simply shows how effective your company is at using those assets to generate profit.”
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2014
The trillion-dollar number is not random: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that the world needs to pour $36 trillion of investment into the clean economy between now and 2050 in order to keep the planet below the critical warming threshold of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C). coal market.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2016
The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 1, 2017
See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital. Bain recently completed research on workforce productivity.
Chris LoCutro
MARCH 5, 2024
And you're looking at the p&l all the time, you're looking at cash flow all the time, you're looking at sales projections all the time, you're looking at expense reports all the time. I don't I don't have the energy to do that hard work, I don't have the energy to do that leadership work. Why do I need that?
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
The fossil fuel divestment movement — an increasingly popular approach with environmentalists — primarily tries to convince pension funds, university endowments, and other asset holders that their investments in oil and coal are unethical because of impact of fossil fuel emissions on the world’s climate.
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