Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

To shift to a remote model successfully, however, management practices have to adapt to remote work, even if only a few workers are remote. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S.-based based CIOs, 30% said communication was their greatest remote management challenge, followed by productivity (22%) and technology (22%).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Each of these shifts have consequences for how today’s multinational corporations should manage themselves. And in 2014, Pfizer, the U.S. This year, for example, the U.S. government’s Committee for Foreign Investment blocked a $3.3

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Economic Outlook for 2014 and Beyond, January 13, 2014, About.com), and our own research , “CEO Briefing 2014 –The Global Agenda: Competing in a Digital World,” found widespread optimism in the C-Suite about companies’ growth prospects. After more than five years of sluggish growth, 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

MAY 9, 2018

Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. The management understood that doing three deals a year meant they had to do due diligence on 20 companies and submit five bids. Corning spent a net $3.2

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

We taught lending officers how to talk to businesses that were afraid that taking debt onto their balance sheets was riskier than maintaining a flat-growth business. In the second place, even if the stakeholders understand how they benefit from communicating about growth, they need to learn how to effectively talk the talk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. And they are usually not apprehensive about replacing the current management team to boost efficiency and performance.

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