Real options Managing strategic investment in an uncertain world

Martha Amram and Nalin Kulatilaka suggest a smarter new way to think about strategic investments in terms of real options. By applying options thinking--the concept behind the recent Nobel Prize-winning work on financial options--to the evaluation of nonfinancial assets, this innovative approach bri...

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Main Author: Amram, Martha
Other Authors: Martha Amram; Nalin Kulatilaka
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Boston, Mass. Harvard Business School Press 1999
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary:Martha Amram and Nalin Kulatilaka suggest a smarter new way to think about strategic investments in terms of real options. By applying options thinking--the concept behind the recent Nobel Prize-winning work on financial options--to the evaluation of nonfinancial assets, this innovative approach brings a financial market discipline to the evaluation of a company's opportunities. Using real options theory, managers can more effectively target crucial opportunities to redeploy, delay, modify, or even abandon capital-intensive projects as events unfold
Physical Description:x, 246 p.
ill.
25 cm
ISBN:0875848451
9780875848457