Private equity and venture capital firms must master a complex set of skills to obtain healthy returns by successfully selecting, structuring, monitoring, and exiting their investments in companies. Before we discuss how they do that, and how well they have been delivering on the challenge...

This paper deals with the integration of QFD and VE in the product planning process. QFD improves the service/product performance based on the customer’s requirements, whereas VE focuses on the reduction of service/product costs without lowering its quality or performance. The integration of...

Prior to the 1990s, the Deluxe Corporation (Deluxe), the world's largest printer of checks as well as a provider of electronic products and services to financial institutions and retail companies, was characterized as a generally stable, family oriented business. This relatively calm situation...

We examine the effects of incorporating a potential tax on carbon emissions into a value investment strategy. We show that in a portfolio optimization problem, a carbon tax at the stock level is mathematically equivalent to a carbon constraint at the portfolio level. Using this insight we derive...