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

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. Some 62.4%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. This includes cutting unnecessary costs—but it also means finding ways to increase revenue. Startups, on the other hand, aren’t debt financed, because they’re too risky and unproven, and have no assets—not so appealing to lenders.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

The Challenge of Investing in Digital Assets. Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. While we have tools and financial statements that help us manage investments in physical assets , we don’t have the same for digital assets and information.

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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. Investment complexity precludes standardization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

A Hidden Champion is defined by three criteria: 1) a company has to be among the top three in the world in its industry, and first on its continent; 2) its revenue must be below €5 billion; and 3) it should be little known to the general public. The high taxes on assets in France and the inheritance tax in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Revenue was only a few million dollars, and we were drawing just 5 million to 10 million users each month. With the ad market under $70 million, many of our local competitors were rapidly experimenting with new types of revenue and business models and were far ahead of us. The company subsequently went private in early 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

They must retain enough control over core assets to maintain control of the ecosystem and to make money. In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested. As of 2012, Garmin had sold 100 million units after 23 years in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

billion spent on all media advertising in 2012 and more than 20 times the estimated $39.5 billion spent on Internet advertising in 2012. Usually working alone and unsupervised, salespeople are entrusted with a company''s most important asset — its relationship with its customers. sales forces exceeds $800 billion a year.

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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. They invest to increase revenue and make the school stronger. test prep).

Education 15

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As I learned during the 2012 Hispanic Voice Town Hall Tour my organization held earlier this year, Hispanics are a high-touch community and this level of interaction goes a long way toward earning trust and loyalty. Hispanics as viable assets to cultivating economic growth. Obama and Romney have yet to consistently represent U.S.

Education 9

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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. At Opportunity we see experienced, resourced entrepreneurial donors as a major asset for our organization. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

According to the Market Research Society (MRS) , spending on online research increased 15 percent from 2008 to 2012. But simply having access to customers in communities is no longer enough. Not when all your competitors have similar platforms. Create a brand for your community.

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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. Turning information exchange into value and revenue involves changing the nature of information relationships as well as management’s abilities to act on that information.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The aggregate impact on jobs and revenues will not be noticeable in the context of the huge U.S. RFID tags were the first wave of IoT implementation and are already playing a large role in locating inventories, vehicles, people, and assets. million between 2012 and 2022, while the number of jobs will grow by about 15.6

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Marketing Transportation Travel Assets 11

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. more competitive and capture more revenue? I asked Mihir A.

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Revenue Transportation Government Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 ” Backing this up is another group of asset managers who have committed $2 billion to invest in a newly created S&P Long-Term Value Index , a subset of companies doing things right. Similarly, Corning Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

As long as the revenues you obtain from those customers exceed your costs, you will turn a profit. As long as the extra revenues justify extra costs, and economies of scale and scope outweigh the cost of increased complexity, it makes sense to continue diversifying. Simple micro-economics sheds light on the issue.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

It’s not just the loss of tax revenue — in fact, as you can see in the chart below, corporate tax revenue has been shrinking as a percentage of economic activity for decades. tax code (HBS professor Mihir Desai described one reasonable approach in a 2012 HBR article ), coupled with a more sensible rule on inversions.

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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. Turning information exchange into value and revenue involves changing the nature of information relationships as well as management’s abilities to act on that information.

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Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 8

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.

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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.

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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. In the dying command and control paradigm, employees are viewed as assets and are intentionally or subconsciously seen as less than whole.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We interviewed representatives from 19 CII member organizations (including public employee pension funds, mutual funds, and union pension funds, whose combined assets approach $8 trillion) about how they cast their Say-on-Pay votes generally, as well as specifically for the 37 failed-vote companies. over $100 billion in revenue).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

So the company mobilized existing, under-utilized assets and connected them to a sharable revenue stream. While Uber’s app can make one’s car a potential source of income, a solar panel can turn a home or a company facility into a productive asset by allowing it to produce its own electricity. from 2012 through 2014.

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Energy Transportation Real Estate Software 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. billion in revenue. By 1993 the company had $1.3

Engineering 13

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

The scrappy startup, launched in 2012, offered a blades-by-subscription service for as little as $3 a month and quickly grew to a team of 45 engineers and 3.2 Unilever paid five times what Dollar Shave Club was expecting for revenues this year. Edgewell makes 60% of its revenue from razors (its Schick brand) and shaving cream.

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Revenue Marketing Engineering Sales 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Giving Pledge members described impact investing as the “hottest topic” at their May 2012 meeting, and Prime Minister David Cameron extolled the potential of the sector at the most recent G8 summit. An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion.

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Banking Government Hospitality Insurance 11

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%. Employing the Thirty Percent Rule , 30% of each division''s revenues must come from products introduced in the last four years. The innovation mindset is a game-changing asset for companies as well as individuals.

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Despite paying $108 billion for Time Warner programming assets whose value is dependent on wide-scale licensing, the Justice Department claimed, AT&T would have the means and the incentive to raise prices charged to other providers, or even refuse to sell at any price “must-have” programming from HBO, Turner, and CNN.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Additionally, the assets for Simply Hired were acquired by Japan’s Recruit, which also owns Indeed. Yet that’s a different animal entirely – LinkedIn’s core source of revenue is an array of talent solutions that goes far beyond listings, and the platform itself is built on a community, not on a marketplace.).

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