Gregory V. Milano

Gregory V. Milano is the Founder & CEO of Fortuna Advisors. He has over 25 years of experience in value-based management as Partner of Stern Stewart & Co., Managing Director and Co-Head of the Strategic Finance Group at Credit Suisse, and Founder and CEO of Fortuna Advisors. He is a recognized industry leader in financial performance measurement and valuation, capital allocation and incentive compensation. He is the author of Curing Corporate Short-Termism: Future Growth vs. Current Earnings, and his work is regularly published in The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, CFO Magazine, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal, amongst others. He earned an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Gregory V. Milano is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

Success and Leadership

Economic Profit as the Ultimate Performance Measure

Success and LeadershipGregory V. Milano

Inflation has subsided some, but it's still far above the last few decades. To bring it down, the Fed is raising interest rates, which has forced corporate leaders to be more discerning about where and how they invest in growth. NASDAQ’s CEO, Adena Friedman, said it well when she wrote...

CEO Insider

Strategic Resource Allocation is More Important in Tough Times

CEO InsiderGregory V. Milano

If you had invested in each member of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index over the five years ending in 2021, your investment in 92% of the companies would have earned a positive return. Less than one in 12 companies would have lost you money. Similar stats would be expected,...

Executive Insider

Getting Employees to Act Like Owners

Executive InsiderGregory V. Milano

Senior leaders are often frustrated when employees don’t take ownership of their actions and outcomes. Sometimes it’s called “the blame game,” because many teams spend more time trying to place blame than fixing the problem or simply taking accountability. But, as I’ll explain, much of this behavior can actually be...

Special Reports

How an Ownership Culture Can Benefit Your Company

Special ReportsGregory V. Milano

When people at all levels of a company – from the management to the front lines – are trained and empowered to think and act like corporate owners, great things happen. Employment and average incomes rise, innovation leads to valued products and services, the presence of the company is felt...

CEO Insider

Ten Key Principles for Effective Capital Deployment

CEO InsiderGregory V. Milano

Capital deployment decisions are among the most important strategic choices facing managements and boards. However, it can often be difficult to choose between investing organically or acquisitively in the business versus paying down debt, building cash or distributing capital via dividends or share repurchases. Some companies are better off distributing...

Gregory V. Milano

Economic Profit as the Ultimate Performance Measure

Strategic Resource Allocation is More Important in Tough Times

Getting Employees to Act Like Owners

How an Ownership Culture Can Benefit Your Company

Ten Key Principles for Effective Capital Deployment

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