Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb harness the power of the internet to offer a frictionless marketplace that powerfully matches supply and demand so as to make whole new sets of assets available to customers. Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers.

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Assets Banking Travel Energy 14

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. Starbucks stopped accepting the Square payment system in late 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The Pew Research Center’s 2014 State of News Media report found that in 2013, 82% of Americans said they got news on a desktop or laptop, with 35% reporting that they received news in this way “frequently.” Meanwhile, 40% of these writers get pitched a minimum of 20 times per day, while 11% get 50 pitches per day and 8.4%

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Media Assets Implementation Accounts 21

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. But total net inflows of money into all mutual funds and exchange traded funds is at its lowest levels since 2014. index funds).

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Assets Marketing Revenue 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. And isn’t the focus on quarterly results a natural outgrowth of the rigorous corporate governance that keeps executives accountable?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

In the fall of 2014 my colleague Catherine Tucker and I conducted a large-scale experiment at MIT, in which 4,494 undergraduate students were offered access to bitcoin. But the practical applications for blockchain technology go way beyond financial assets. Transactions occur between blockchain addresses. Irreversibility of Records.

Assets 14

Assets Government Banking Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Home Depot ’s hack, compromised 65 million customer credit and debit card accounts. In the third quarter of 2014, Home Depot showed a 21% increase in earnings per share. In the beginning of October, 2014, the largest U.S. In the beginning of October, 2014, the largest U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We surveyed women in the United States, United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India with personal income of at least $100,000 or investable assets of $500,000 or more. It is growing: 58% of women surveyed across the four Asian countries expect their assets to increase. And their wealth is not just substantial.

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Assets Telecommunications Diversity Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

After controlling for momentum, stock returns aren’t persistent; for example, if high stock returns in 2014 lead to high satisfaction at the start of 2015, these high stock returns don’t necessarily persist in 2015 – a stock that has done well in 2014 should be equally likely to outperform as underperform in 2015.

Marketing 15

Marketing Benefits Assets Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In July 2014, following our emergence from bankruptcy in April 2014, we moved to a new office, on a shoe-string – basically moving ourselves in U-Hauls. Operating profits are at unprecedented levels, organic sales growth is north of 25% and our asset productivity, through the implementation of lean processes, has shot up.

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Operations Media Strategic Planning Sales 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Back then, CFOs (inclusive of the role’s predecessor titles) were squarely focused on accounting, controls, and preparing financial and tax statements. In the early 1980’s, sixty percent of corporate value creation emanated from the optimization of tangible assets. Even HR itself agrees.

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Human Resources Administration Assets Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One example is Tokenmarket , a marketplace for tokens, digital assets and blockchain-based investing, that has teamed up with the Stock Market of Gibraltar to offer KYC- and AML-compliant ICOs. Instead of stock splits, the founding crypto-asset gets denominated in smaller and smaller units; in this case 1,000 to one.

Assets 15

Assets Government Software Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

healthcare system is undergoing a disruptive transformation as it shifts toward a value-based model that makes providers more accountable to their patients and payors. Clients simply select the year they plan to retire and buy that mutual fund, and enjoy the benefits of dynamic, lifetime asset allocation. Leverage big data.

Insurance 10

Insurance Assets Advertising Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. By 2014, more than 1,100 Parkland patients had been safely treated this way. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. As a public safety-net provider, Parkland has several built-in advantages: An ACO before ACOs existed.

Hospitality 14

Hospitality Insurance Operations Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

While the ability to authenticate identity was now digital, bank accounts and payment systems were still paper-based — requiring separate and laborious Know Your Customer validation procedures that had the result of continuing to exclude a majority of the people in India from accessing the benefits of banking.

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Digital Transformation Banking Government Inclusion 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Thus, you can see our existing infrastructural assets, and the business processes supporting them, as information transfer proxies. Any accounting of middle-class earners and how their household incomes are allocated tells the same tale: more and more as a proportion is being spent on virtual goods and services.

Transportation 15

Transportation Hospitality Travel Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. Recent research lets us make an even bolder claim: accounting earnings are practically irrelevant for digital companies. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Revenue Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some of the worst corporate disasters of the past two decades were heralded by whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins raised the red flag internally at Enron, Cynthia Cooper let management know of major accounting problems at WorldCom, and Matthew Lee brought problems to his management team at Lehman Brothers.

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Compliance Assets Manager Government 15

AIHR

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

You’ve seen this evolution over the last 20 to 30 years, around empowerment and accountability and ownership and really bringing people into the organization. But in 2014, one of my best friends and I were starting to put together a podcast that we never got off the ground called the Re-humanization of the workplace.

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Change Management Manager Project Management Energy 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

As it turned out, having no predetermined way of doing things turned out to be an asset when it came to reinventing retailing and television, and these leaders kept that outsider’s perspective even through waves of growth. Today this unit accounts for 29% of revenue. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Revenue Metrics Accounts Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Of all the new power generation built globally over the past two years, renewable sources accounted for over half. For years, asset owners with longer-term horizons, like pension or sovereign wealth funds, have pressed companies to better manage environmental and social issues. In the U.S., Wall Street wakes up. Blackrock, with $4.7

Energy 14

Energy Assets Banking Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

HBR’s resulting list of the 100 Global CEOs who have delivered the best financial results, published in its November 2014 issue, placed Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos squarely at the top. There’s no doubt that Mr. Bezos has done well for the company he founded.

Metrics 15

Metrics Government Assets Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. Companies such as Exxon, Chevron, and Shell have all said they expect to expand their production in shale assets in the US, Canada, and Argentina. The soaring U.S.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

in 2014, reports cloud-security firm Skyhigh Networks, which tracks 17 million users and 10,000 cloud services worldwide. But as the new cross-cloud technological solutions approach, firms will increasingly be able to verify that employees are actually doing what they’re supposed to do with critical corporate data assets.

Hospitality 13

Hospitality Compliance Assets Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

trillion in 2014. Holding themselves accountable. ” Measuring how efficiently the marketing organization is using the company’s money keeps everyone accountable for using those funds wisely. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. trillion in 2019, up from $1.6

ROI 8

ROI Marketing Cash Flow Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

There also have been innovative new entrants in accounts receivable lending such as Fundbox and C2FO. It is always better to build on assets that exist, rather than to try to create an innovation center from scratch.). In June 2014, almost 800 accelerators from across the country competed for $2.5

Small Business 15

Small Business Government Banking Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

That was my worry during the seemingly interminable period that separated my final revisions to Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China , submitted in August 2013, and the actual publication date in late January 2014.

Assets 8

Assets Government Marketing Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”). See the rest of the series here.

Manager 8

Manager Government Banking Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

To begin with, quite a few parts of it are heavily concentrated at a global level (the credit ratings business, for example, or global investment banking), and many more at the national level (just six financial institutions account for 46% of all U.S. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”). See the rest of the series here.

Manager 8

Manager Government Banking Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” And in 2014, HBR published a lengthy feature critical of the practice. Since these shareholders have “skin in the game”, they have the incentive to look beyond earnings and instead look to a company’s long-term growth opportunities and intangible assets.

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Cash Flow Government Scaling Assets 8

Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

These enticing offerings can transform a job into a career, a workplace into a community, and an employee into a loyal asset. In this, employees can elect to have a portion of their earnings automatically deducted from their paychecks and directed into their investment account. By the end of 2019, 42.1% Additionally, 31.3%

Benefits 64

Benefits Diversity Insurance Inclusion 64

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Three decades later, Drucker had become convinced that knowledge was a more crucial economic resource than land, labor, or financial assets, leading to what he called a “post-capitalist society.” A 2014 McKinsey & Co. And these folks don’t necessarily have a clue. Embrace employee autonomy. Read the rest of the series here.

Assets 15

Assets Compensation Manager Scaling 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its wonky, but readable, Summary for Policymakers (a precursor to the full 2014 report). Better tools for companies to assess “materiality” get closer: SASB releases its first sustainability accounting standards. 2014 and Beyond. Watch this space. Sustainability'

Energy 14

Energy Government Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Firms must conduct a deep dive and map the customer journey, or buying process, taking into account customers’ use of the emerging digital media to search, learn, purchase, and obtain follow-up service. Here’s how B2B sellers should do that. Map the customer journey and redesign your sales funnel. The moral: Do not act rashly.

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B2B Sales Funnel Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The public and private sectors need to work together to protect critical assets with confidence and trust — helping manage the risks we know, and getting ahead of those we don''t. There are two primary areas of concern. The first focuses on the concept of enhanced public/private information sharing and developing standards.

Government 9

Government Risk Management Telecommunications Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

trillion in 2014 alone. Perhaps most striking is the fact that data flows already accounted for $2.8 The battle for market share increasingly boils down to which company has the most sophisticated digital assets and capabilities.

Scaling 8

Scaling Media Operations Marketing 8

Peter Winick

MAY 5, 2025

How purpose, psychology, and storytelling fuel lasting thought leadership This episode explores how thought leadership can evolve from an accidental byproduct into a deliberate strategic asset. Are you talking about, you know, the account penetration, all of that? Rewind to 2015, 2014, 2015, I was, it was probably still about 60, 40.

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