Kaiser / Young The Blue Line Imperative

What Managing for Value Really Means
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-51090-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

A groundbreaking guide to making profitable businessdecisions
Do you wonder why your value initiatives aren't providing thepayoff you'd hoped for? Could it be because you've been thinkingabout value all wrong? According to the authors of thisgroundbreaking guide, there's a very good chance that you have.Using examples from leading companies worldwide, they explain whyevery decision a company makes either creates value or detractsfrom it, and why, if they hope to survive and thrive in today'sincreasingly competitive global marketplace, company leaders mustmake value-creation the centrepiece of every business decision.Authors Kaiser and Young have dubbed this approach "Blue-LineManagement," (BLM), and in this entertaining, highly accessiblebook, they delineate BLM principles and practices and show you howto implement them in your company.
* Explains why the failure to properly define and assess valueoften makes it difficult for the people who manage businesses toeffect long-term success
* Offers guidelines for making the satisfaction of customer needsand wants--i.e. value creation--the driver of allbusiness activities
* The authors are respected academics at INSEAD, the world'slargest and most respected graduate business school, with campusesin Europe, Asia and the Middle East

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaiser, Kevin

Young, S. David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
Chapter 1 What is Value? 1
Chapter 2 The Global Capital Markets 23
Chapter 3 The Opportunity Cost of Capital 45
Chapter 4 The Expected Future Free Cash Flows 71
Chapter 5 Blue-line Management 93
Chapter 6 Shifting to Blue 115
Chapter 7 The Hazard of Growth 135
Chapter 8 Creating a Blue-line Culture 159
Chapter 9 Trust and Hierarchy in Blue-line Management 195
Chapter 10 Value and Decision Making 219
Chapter 11 Getting Net Present Value Right 233
Chapter 12 Becoming a Blue-line Manager 269
Appendix Blue-line Questions 289
Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

KEVIN KAISER is Professor of Management Practice at INSEAD and Director of INSEAD's Transition to General Management program as well as Director of the ABN Amro Managing for Value Research Fund at INSEAD. In addition to directing and teaching in many corporate client programs for INSEAD, he also teaches in numerous institutes and programs for private clients throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He was formerly Visiting Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he had previously earned his PhD in Finance. He was a member of the Corporate Finance and Strategy Practice of McKinsey & Company, where he led a variety of studies addressing value creation and corporate strategy.
S. DAVID YOUNG is Professor of Accounting & Control at INSEAD, where he teaches in the MBA program and in a broad range of executive courses. He has served as an advisor to companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia on various aspects of value-based management and is also a frequent advisor on analyzing financial accounts. David holds a PhD from the University of Virginia and is also a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst. He is the author of a wide variety of articles in academic and professional journals, and is the co-author of many books, including EVA and Value-based Management: A Practical Guide to Implementation (2001), Profits You Can Trust: Spotting Surviving Accounting Landmines (2003), Attracting Investors: A Marketing Approach to Finding Funds for Your Business (Wiley, 2004), and Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis (Wiley, 2013).