Corporate finance

It's not the only startup to make that mistake.

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

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work. Last week I arrived home from work to see my 8th grade son toiling away on a science...

Economist Tyler Cowen argues complacency is on the rise.

Executives must carefully consider the timing and pacing of these changes.

A company’s stock price is the clearest measure of market expectations about its performance. Yet in a 1984 Louis Harris poll of top executives from more than 600 companies, fewer than one-third thought the market fairly valued their company’s stock. Tellingly, only 2% thought their stock was overvalued, while a dramatic 60% said the market […]

In a famous experiment, researchers ran a lottery with a twist. Half the participants were randomly assigned a lottery number. The remaining half were...

They can amount to 50-80% of customers - and consume about 40-60% of a company's costs.

And it's one reason inequality has increased.

A combination of digital technology, flat corporate structures, and unethical leaders.

You need to understand it even if it's not your job.

Despite the best efforts of senior executives, major change initiatives often fail. Those failures have at least one common root: Executives and employees...

The clear method for understanding how price reflects the market's expectations.

Why fixed prices are inefficient.

And it's more common at large companies.

Yves Morieux, director of the BCG Institute for Organization, argues that imposing formal processes, structures, and guidelines only makes things more...

When companies buy computers for their employees, they also provide training to make sure the investment pays off. So why do those same companies invest millions of dollars in health care without making any particular effort to ensure that their employees stay healthy? As major purchasers of health care, corporations have almost as much of […]

Joe Knight, coauthor of the Financial Intelligence series, gives you a crash course in reading the numbers.

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 […]

Four steps to prepare your company - before it's too late.