Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Balance Sheet Assets Insurance Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. This currency is only “printed” and stored as assets when we focus on positive things and express gratitude for them. Most frequently, these high-return assets come from our lives outside of the office.

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Manager Balance Sheet Assets Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In the third quarter of 2014, Home Depot showed a 21% increase in earnings per share. Sears announced in October 2014 that one of its companies, Kmart, was the target of a data security breach and that credit/debit cards and personal information were compromised by hackers. In the beginning of October, 2014, the largest U.S.

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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. This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” In doing so, they systematically undervalue their own intangible assets. In a statement, DISH President and CEO Joseph P.

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Balance Sheet Assets Digital Transformation Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The government has also agreed to sell at least €50 billion of assets to recapitalize Greek’s banks. By law, existing prices, wages, contracts, and balance sheets (including internal and external debt) will have to be converted from Euro to drachma, and all of that will decline in value.

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Assets 12

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. Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. The soaring U.S. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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