Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

They begin with different values, invest in different assets, and choose different leaders. Airline JetBlue has turned its Twitter account into a highly responsive, 24/7 customer service line. British retailer ASOS also maintains a popular Instagram account. Difficult, but not impossible.

Digital Transformation 13

Digital Transformation Assets Real Estate Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

Return on assets indicates how efficient management is at using assets to generate earnings. Return on assets indicates how efficient management is at using assets to generate earnings. Value is defined in the other paper according to the Tobin’s q ratio, which indicates the market value of a company’s assets.

Assets 14

Assets Banking Marketing Accounts 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

With almost a billion friends on Facebook, six billion cell phone accounts globally, and twenty billion "things" from refrigerators to bridge spans to micro-medical devices soon to be wired by Internet, the digital age is upon us in full force. That puts vast new arrays of assets in play, from crowds to drones, sensors to shoppers.

Media 15

Media Assets Marketing Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

According to research presented at the 2012 Audio Branding Congress , congruent sound cues can increase the speed of a visual search for products (a key for success in both online and retail settings), as well as improve the perceived taste of food and wine (PDF). Station messages, for example, took into account travelers’ anxiety.

Advertising 14

Advertising B2C B2B Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

companies during the period 1998-2012. We measured performance using the company’s return on assets, adjusted for the company’s industry and size. In two recent studies, my co-authors and I looked at the relation between director stock ownership and company performance for the largest U.S.

Compensation 15

Compensation Assets Government Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Since 1995, when glass and coatings each accounted for about 40% of sales, the split has evolved to 93% coatings and 7% glass today. Eaton’s acquisitions of Westinghouse’s distribution & control business (1994), Aeroquip-Vickers (1999), and Cooper (2012), increased revenues by roughly one-third with each addition.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Revenue Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, Iger reportedly noticed that Pixar’s hugely popular Toy Story characters appeared in the 2005 opening parade at Hong Kong Disneyland while recent Disney animated characters—for example, Lilo & Stitch , released in 2002—were MIA (although Mickey and pals were present and accounted for, of course).

Assets 15

Assets Revenue Marketing Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Time magazine just published a fascinating account of how President Obama's campaign team used data to microtarget voters. If either the data asset itself or the algorithm on top of it seems to be cutting edge or proprietary, I wouldn't go shout it from the rooftops. Data is an asset, like everything else.

Scaling 18

Scaling Assets Hospitality Implementation 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Even when peace has returned, post-conflict nationalization has been seen in many countries, with business losing billions in operational assets. Move forward to 2012, and those days are long gone. When fully operational, this mine promises to account for somewhere between a quarter and a third of the GDP of Mongolia.

Banking 15

Banking Assets Government Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

HP is #10 on the 2012 list, and IBM is number 19. To help frame the thinking of these dispersed IBMers, a three-day, 24-hour on-line town hall was held for some 150,000 employees — IBM called it a Jam — to define the values by which IBM would be operated and its people held accountable.

Operations 20

Operations Revenue Strategic Planning Marketing 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." A lot of investors seem to get this — which helps explain why Vanguard has grown to account for 17% of mutual fund assets in the U.S., The largest U.S. But, to follow Swensen's reasoning, the incentives are all wrong.

Balance Sheet 16

Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. The time is ripe for CIOs to take a page from the CFOs'' playbook to ensure both accountability and responsibility for information creation. We all know that CFOs are accountable for the financial stewardship of the enterprise.

Government 8

Government Assets Accounts Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Assets are combined, rearranged, and repurposed to strengthen a business or to create new businesses. By one insider’s account, recent mergers among big pharmaceutical firms led to R&D cutbacks and reduced productivity. These smaller-scale alternatives to mergers also remix assets, and often with a different strategic intent.

Assets 8

Assets Scaling Travel Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. Some seek stricter accounting of ROI based on objectively measurable goals and achievements. Many others simply want a more visceral sense that their dollars are being spent effectively.

Nonprofit 8

Nonprofit Assets Engineering ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

million in 2012 — because of his "Whale-related" failures, and that JPM had posted a record 2012 net income of $21.3 But the 129-page internal task force report is significant. The risk limits set were too vague and broad. And, the Value at Risk (VaR) model was badly flawed, understating risk.

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Banking Compensation Government 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

No wonder, then, that executives have placed predictive analytics at the top of the executive agenda since 2012, according to a recent Accenture survey. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

Balance Sheet 10

Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The top 150 global licensors accounted in total for almost $230 billion , according to License! billion in retail sales of licensed merchandise worldwide in 2012, fueled by the popularity of its Marvel Comics properties. Trademarks are some of companies’ most valuable assets and legal actions are sometimes necessary to defend them.

Marketing 11

Marketing Sales Sales Benefits 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. Accountants invest and grow, focusing on the top line. Accountants try to grow their schools out of trouble.

Education 15

Education Revenue Accounts Government 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

And Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, already under fire for a fraudulent bank account scheme , has faced tough questions about his salary and the multimillion-dollar retirement package of Carrie Tolstedt, a key executive tied to the scandal. Both Stumpf and Tolstedt have been forced to forfeit millions in stock options and other compensation.

Compensation 12

Compensation Insurance Benefits Assets 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

Good corporate governance is about many things — boards that act independently, robust shareholder rights, accurate accounting, reasonable and fair executive compensation, and so on. No single parameter defines good governance. It takes a village. Many shareholders agree. And the woman being added to the company''s board?

Diversity 8

Diversity Government Compensation Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Specifically, focused firms fare better in countries where society expects and gets public accountability of both firms and governments, while conglomerates succeed in nations with high public accountability deficits. In 1995, glass and coatings each accounted for about 40% of sales. Imagine you are starting a new business.

Scaling 9

Scaling Revenue Accounts Government 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Driving these changes is a widespread belief that more needs to be done to hold CEOs and boards accountable. Malkiel argues that most of the gigantic growth in asset-management-industry profits since 1980 "is likely to represent a deadweight loss for investors." That''s understandable.

Compensation 8

Compensation Assets Government Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

No wonder, then, that executives have placed predictive analytics at the top of the executive agenda since 2012, according to a recent Accenture survey. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The need to renew manufacturing was a big issue in the Presidential election of 2012. While households have been trimming down their debt, the value of people’s savings, investments, and retirement accounts has recovered from the recessionary low. Manufacturing Renaissance. Americans are saving money at very high rates.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Energy Biotech Engineering 8

Chief Executive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In 2012, Superstorm Sandy flooded many of the major IT infrastructure facilities in New York City, bringing telecommunications to a grinding halt for weeks. We became nearly indistinguishable from other business units within their organizations, even supplementing the efforts of competitors who shared client accounts.

Telecommunications 98

Telecommunications Digital Transformation Marketing Onboarding 98

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are also some additional costs to consider, such as: Implementation fees : This one-time fee for setting up your account can range from $1,000 to $10,000. It goes beyond traditional HR software, aiming to transform your workforce into a strategic asset and drive business success. Dayforce was founded in 2009 in Toronto, Canada.

Software 64

Software Compliance Onboarding Administration 64

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Individual companies are feeling the bite: analysts at Morningstar estimate that input costs at Tyson Foods will rise by $700 million — more than its 2012 net income. One auto analyst declared 2012 the " Year of the Green Car ," with more high-MPG models, 500,000 hybrid sales in the U.S., economy commodity prices have become.

Energy 14

Energy Sales Sales Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Lazear went on to describe how economists, with the University of Chicago's Gary Becker leading the way , had been running roughshod over the other social sciences — using economic tools to study crime, the family, accounting, corporate management, and countless other not strictly economic topics. Many of us like to think of ?

Accounts 15

Accounts Assets Government Education 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Earlier this week, besieged media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who by all accounts is actually the man behind 140 characters , responded on Twitter to a person in Kentucky who had an all-too-common newspaper complaint: @ esbarr_ Yes. — Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) October 24, 2012.@ — Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) October 24, 2012.

Media 9

Media Assets Accounts Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

in 2012, are now likely to occur four times as frequently due to ­human-induced climate change.”. Better tools for companies to assess “materiality” get closer: SASB releases its first sustainability accounting standards. In parallel, China’s air became, at times, dangerous and unbreathable.

Energy 14

Energy Government Sales Sales 14

Chris LoCutro

MARCH 11, 2025

When leaders avoid accountability, the ripple effects hit every part of the business. But if accountability is missing, misalignment and inefficiency creep in under the surface, leading to confusion and frustration across your company. Employees take cues from leadershipif they see accountability isnt enforced, they disengage.

Accounts 52

Accounts Metrics Operations Implementation 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

He had founded a bank in Maryland, expanded it to six branches and $400 million in assets, and sold it for a substantial profit. The statement cited Cerberus Capital Management’s unsuccessful attempts to shed its investment in the company that made the weapon used in the 2012 elementary-school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Banking 8

Banking Media Engineering Assets 8