Financial analysis

The role has one of the shortest tenures of any in the C-Suite and is often blamed for below-target growth. But recent research shows firing the CRO can cause more problems than it solves.

The SEC has an opportunity to increase transparency, efficiency, and fairness in the U.S. labor market.

New research on how to identify investments that produce delayed but real profits — not just those that produce short-term accounting profits.

Too often, companies do a poor job of making innovation transparent to investors.

As rates rise, outdated thinking can lead to costly conclusions.

A data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation

Investors have a quantitative understanding of how the market values a company. Management teams should too.

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

Don’t undervalue the overlooked.

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

A new measure gets past the distortions of total shareholder return and puts buybacks into perspective.

The tech giants Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Google (now Alphabet), Microsoft, and Netflix are all so successful--and generate so much cash--that...

This year, ESG moved from a “nice to have” to an essential part of corporate strategy — and there’s no going back.

They can amount to 50–80% of customers — and consume about 40–60% of a company’s costs.

A recent analysis of 35,000 manufacturing plants found that those with more-structured management practices were more likely to acquire ones with less-structured practices.

In conventional business and government megaprojects--such as hydroelectric dams, chemical-processing plants, or big-bang enterprise-resource-planning...