Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, for example, the global financial crisis caused private developers for the Olympic Village project to withdraw, requiring a refinancing package backed by government. Consider, too, that when threats materialize at large-scale events, the damage often spills over to other parties.

Risk Management 16

Risk Management Manager Insurance Government 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

northeast in October 2012, ranks as the second-costliest hurricane in American history, causing an estimated $68 billion in damages. But there are more subtle benefits: forests also clean our water and coastal wetlands and reefs provide natural defense from storms and floods. Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm that pummeled the U.S.

Assets 13

Assets Operations Benefits Metrics 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 30, 2012

On February 16, 2012, Barclays of U.K. NPCI has one major asset: The 60+ large banks in India connected to its ATM Network. It can convert millions of "non-consumers" of financial services in the developing world into consumers, and large sections of the world's poor population will benefit. NPCI used mobile as the channel.

Banking 18

Banking B2B Accounts Transportation 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

Assets 12

Assets Operations Insurance Telecommunications 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Date: January 20, 2012 20:41. Date: January 23, 2012 14:18. Date: January 23, 2012 14:42. Date: January 23, 2012 17:52. He’s a real asset to us. Date: January 23, 2012 18:37. Date: January 24, 2012 10:17. Surely the company could benefit from a more contemporary perspective. Sincerely, Sameer.

Engineering 15

Engineering Operations Education Manager 15

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. Looking at history, business cannot afford to be not interested in community development. The anti-malaria program in Mozal was profitable.

Banking 15

Banking Assets Government Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

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. To take the Obama campaign as an example, look at their move from having two databases in 2008 to one in 2012. I guarantee you that was not easy.

Scaling 18

Scaling Assets Hospitality Implementation 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5

Software 14

Software B2B Marketing Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Henry, like any leader seeking strategic change, can benefit from these turnaround lessons. Identify the core assets that create value for customers, and refurbish them. They first restored the assets determining whether people use a health center. Be prepared for bad news; the situation is always worse than you think.

Assets 13

Assets Change Management Software Media 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

Nonprofits have an inherent asset in recruiting against their for-profit competitors: purpose. Year Up pays competitive salaries that are augmented by great benefits. Leverage your mission. Pay as competitively as you can.

Nonprofit 14

Nonprofit Recruitment Scaling Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. What matters is how lean a company you can create while still getting the maximum return on your assets. Compare that with Kodak, which at its peak employed over 60,000 employees.

Scaling 14

Scaling Engineering Assets Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of equity capital for startups is one of a handful of jewels in the crown of the JOBS Act that swept through the House and Senate in a rare and refreshing show of bipartisanship, and was signed into law by President Obama April 5, 2012. I am, to say the least, deeply skeptical.

Assets 16

Assets Government Marketing Compensation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Assets 15

Assets Operations Revenue Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." But the for-profit mutual fund industry benefits by offering high-volatility funds.". 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.,

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Although such sentiments may not apply to most CEOs, even the anonymous CEO still benefits from the impulse: Most CEOs worldwide earn between 50 and 100 times more than the average worker. return on sales, return on assets, and market-to-book ratio) have been increasing with time , at least in the U.S.

Staffing 14

Staffing Compensation Assets Employee Engagement 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Last year, Jeff Smisek, the former CEO of United Airlines, received a separation payment of $4.875 million in cash along with additional equity awards and other benefits for a total of close to $37 million after being ousted from his company. There was even more variation in the kinds of benefits provided by golden parachutes.

Compensation 12

Compensation Insurance Benefits Assets 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

billion in retail sales of licensed merchandise worldwide in 2012, fueled by the popularity of its Marvel Comics properties. But the benefits of brand exposure and growth through licensing don’t come without risks. However, when managed appropriately, even these downsides can actually benefit brand owners.

Marketing 11

Marketing Sales Sales Benefits 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. We believe that it is not the age of the asset that is important, but rather, the value infused into that asset that drives scale.

Scaling 12

Scaling Banking Balance Sheet Sales 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In In November 2012, I wrote an article for HBR about the emergence of returning professional internship programs across a wide range of sectors: for-profit, non-profit, military and academic institutions.

Diversity 10

Diversity Recruitment Assets Inclusion 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

First, the creditors generally cannot recover a sovereign debtor’s local assets since these are typically protected by domestic law. Second, sovereign debtors benefit from foreign governments’ sovereign immunity laws, limiting creditors’ ability to seize sovereign assets held abroad. In 2012, the U.S.

Assets 8

Assets Government Marketing Benefits 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. CIO''s must re-invigorate the vision of 1987, when the inaugural issue of CIO magazine stated that, "information is a corporate asset to be managed by a top-ranking executive." Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit. Be accountable.

Government 8

Government Assets Accounts Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In In 2012, the New York Times published a round-table debate about it. Rather than characterizing Ahn as a traitor or a mercenary, Koreans were angry at their own institutions for treating such a valuable asset so carelessly. So both sending and receiving nations — or organizations — can benefit when talent migrates.

Assets 9

Assets Recruitment Government Media 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Although Jobs tried to spin NeXT computer as an ultimate success when the assets were sold to Apple in 1986 for $429 million, few in Silicon Valley agreed. billion in 2012. He protected their ability to make small bets on short films in order to learn how to eventually make a full-length feature film in Toy Story.

Assets 9

Assets Marketing Engineering Recruitment 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Companies have been striving to harness and leverage the power of their data assets for decades. That is the finding of a survey (PDF) and series of follow-up interviews conducted by NewVantage Partners with C-level executives and function heads representing companies and government agencies during the second half of 2012.

Metrics 9

Metrics Operations Government Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. The digital transition needs to both protect profitable operations and assets, while making the transition to a new digital business or digitally enhancing part of the existing business.

Digital Transformation 9

Digital Transformation Risk Management Operations Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. Singer came on the board in October 2012.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Assets Revenue Government 8

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 9, 2024

Compensation and Benefits: Compensation Planning : Helps design and manage salary structures, bonuses, and other forms of compensation. Benefits Administration : Manages employee benefits, such as health insurance, retirement plans, and other perks. Rippling is capable of handling both small and large group benefits plans.

Software 64

Software Compliance Onboarding Administration 64

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Desai , a professor and dean at Harvard Business School, a professor at Harvard Law School, and the author of a 2012 HBR article on taxing businesses , a few questions about how this investigation fits into a larger debate about the corporate tax code. I asked Mihir A. Our edited conversation is below.

Revenue 9

Revenue Transportation Government Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It is comparable in scale to the $835 billion emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bill signed in 2008 that helped the United States recover from the worst economic crisis in our lifetime — but it would put that much money into the economy every single year. The magnitude of this stimulus is hard to comprehend.

Government 8

Government Insurance Administration Revenue 8

15Five

JULY 23, 2015

That was the question we posed last year in this blog post based on The Society for Human Resource Management’s 2012 Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement Report. Better relationships and communication with leadership are right up there with benefits and compensation!? 3) Benefits overall. What matters most to your employees?

Compensation 52

Compensation Performance Management Benefits Human Resources 52

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

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Companies, too, will benefit from knowing which compensation practices their owners think are detrimental to building long-term shareholder value. Given that some companies have a triennial Say on Pay vote, investors will vote on fewer companies in 2012. 2012 will tell us how well we have learned our lessons.

Compensation 10

Compensation Revenue Assets Government 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

Wolford''s consultancy earns one percent on assets it manages, so the client''s decision to go with her group amounted to a substantial sum — quite a testament to the power of being out in the workplace. LGBT employees aren''t the only beneficiaries of an inclusive workplace; employers benefit, too.

Inclusion 13

Inclusion Assets Diversity Retention 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Over a 20-year period, 3M''s gross margin averaged 51% and the company''s return on assets averaged 29%. New Venture Formation: Product inventors must recruit their own teams, reaping the benefit of 3M''s many networking forums as they seek the right people for the job at hand. Take, for example, 3M Corporation. How do they do it?

Engineering 11

Engineering Assets Recruitment Compensation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% It was just lousy timing if you happened to be in one of these industries, which were all in the bottom quartile of total shareholder returns (share price change plus dividends paid) in the 10 years through 2012. Perhaps by a lot.

Revenue 8

Revenue Marketing Assets Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?).

Transportation 11

Transportation Software Marketing Insurance 11