Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Employees are the companies' valuable assets. With accountability to the team in mind, employees get the flexibility to do other important chores, attend a family party, or plan a day out with the kids. And if employees' needs are not taken care of, they directly impact their productivity and, ultimately, companies' bottom line.

Insurance 56

Insurance Benefits Retention Assets 56

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Eccles, a mathematician by training and one of the foremost experts in corporate reporting, has for the past five years been working to create sustainability accounting standards for the investment community (he is also the chairman of ESG asset management firm Arabesque Partners). It’s been slow going.

Accounts 14

Accounts Assets Insurance Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

Energy 14

Energy Assets Banking Transportation 14

AIHR

JANUARY 26, 2023

Review of Accounting Studies, 23: 234-264. Narcissistic leaders: An asset or a liability? Let’s agree about nice leaders: a literature review and meta-analysis of agreeableness and its relationship with leadership outcomes. The Leadership Quarterly , 101593. Brucks, M. Küfner, A. Holtzman, N. Donnellan, M. B., … & Mehl, M.

Recruitment 52

Recruitment Performance Review Assets Banking 52

Chief Executive

OCTOBER 20, 2022

What they don’t realize is that companies have these assets called employees in them. In 2015], our employees in Indiana were upset about a law that was being passed that was discriminating against their LGBTQ community. But if I don’t advocate for my employees’ well-being, then who will advocate for them?

Software 98

Software Scaling Sales Sales 98

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.

Balance Sheet 13

Balance Sheet Assets Insurance Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In fact, the 2015 Medscape Physician Lifestyle Report listed the increased computerization of the practice and the burden of administrative tasks among the top four drivers of physician burnout. With the move to accountable care, that is changing for the better. Define “the why.”

Assets 13

Assets Workflows Administration Insurance 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For example, if I found that satisfaction in 2015 was associated with high profits in 2016, it could be that high profits in 2015 led to both high satisfaction in 2015 and also high profits in 2016. Looking at future profits doesn’t solve the issue, because profits are persistent.

Marketing 15

Marketing Benefits Assets Accounts 15

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.

Assets 14

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. Difficult, but not impossible.

Digital Transformation 13

Digital Transformation Assets Real Estate Banking 13

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. The alternative investment superconsumer represents about 20 to 25 million households who have approximately $25 trillion dollars in investable assets and nearly $8 trillion in retirement assets.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Assets Marketing Revenue 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail sales through digital channels (including mobile sales) increased by a massive 23% in 2015. Amazon is the biggest beneficiary, now accounting for 26% of all online retail sales. We studied the shopping behavior of just over 46,000 customers who made a purchase during the 14-month period from June 2015 to August 2016.

Sales 15

Sales Sales Assets Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, Iger reportedly noticed that Pixar’s hugely popular Toy Story characters appeared in the 2005 opening parade at Hong Kong Disneyland while recent Disney animated characters—for example, Lilo & Stitch , released in 2002—were MIA (although Mickey and pals were present and accounted for, of course).

Assets 15

Assets Revenue Marketing Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Seemingly mundane accounting systems and customer databases now yield the raw materials that can be transformed into lucrative new services. To find opportunity at the edge is more effective because it generates new revenue from assets — customers, products or enterprise activities — that are already in place. zettabytes.

Revenue 14

Revenue Software Assets Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

accounting industry was poised for growth but was predominantly male, with only 500 female certified public accountants in the country. After recognizing the problem, leaders across the accounting field teamed with industry associations and academic institutions to solve the issue through awareness campaigns and hiring initiatives.

Education 15

Education Recruitment Accounts Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. And isn’t the focus on quarterly results a natural outgrowth of the rigorous corporate governance that keeps executives accountable? We calculate that U.S.

Manager 15

Manager Revenue Metrics Cash Flow 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

While the large banks are at the center of this trust vacuum — with a seemingly steady stream of scandals, such as the recent Wells Fargo account rigging debacle — the erosion of trust is bad for everyone. In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S.

Insurance 15

Insurance Balance Sheet Assets Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

To the extent that banks have digitized, they have focused on the most routine customer transactions, like online access to bank accounts and remote deposits. As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.”

Banking 15

Banking Small Business User Experience Cash Flow 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

After years of inbound marketing, your company has assets: evergreen content; backlinks to your site; social media followings; and, of course, customers who advocate for your brand. The metaphor also accounts for loss of energy, where lost users and customers work against our momentum and slow our growth. That’s no longer true.

Sales Funnel 15

Sales Funnel Sales Sales B2C 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

When an E.coli outbreak at Chipotle Mexican Grill outlets left 55 customers ill , in 2015, the news stories, shutdowns, and investigations shattered the restaurant chain’s reputation. Sales plummeted, and Chipotle’s share price dropped 42%, to a three-year low , where it has languished ever since. Irreversibility of Records.

Government 15

Government Accounts Assets Administration 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

While the actual value of the currency deposited is still to be formally accounted for, there is little doubt that most of the invalidated currency was returned. In an analysis of income-tax probes , the highest level of illegal money detection in India was found to be in 2015–2016, and the cash component was only about 6%.

Banking 14

Banking Government Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

household participates in 29 different loyalty programs, according to the 2015 Colloquy Loyalty Census. Once a transaction is entered in the database and the accounts are updated, the records cannot be altered, because they’re linked to every transaction record that came before them (hence the term “chain”).

Travel 15

Travel Balance Sheet Banking Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

For instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third. According to Dealogic, banks have divested more than $2 trillion in assets since 2007. Their share of total foreign investment assets has risen from 8% to 14% over the past ten years.

Banking 8

Banking Assets Balance Sheet Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Managing Millennials in Today’s Workforce” promise to help turn generational differences into an asset. A 2015 national study commissioned by CNBC echoes these results. At KPMG, the Big Four accounting firm where I work, Millennials now make up a majority of our 30,000-person work force.

Assets 15

Assets Inclusion Employee Engagement Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

.—while still a net importer of oil—is now selling millions of barrels of oil to China, Britain, Mexico, and India, a new reality made possible when restrictions on crude oil exports were lifted in 2015. The soaring U.S. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

As one accountant based in Japan during 2010, explained , “there was a big rush of inquiries about schemes that might be used either to split out salaries or defer part of it.” In 2015, Japan reformed its corporate governance code to require boards to have at least two independent directors.

Government 9

Government Compensation Insurance Accounts 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. government provides tax-free treatment for most income earned in retirement accounts, pensions, college savings accounts, and non-profits. Further, U.S.

Revenue 11

Revenue Government Accounts Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In the time period of March 2015 to March 2016, the Saudi government withdrew over $100 billion from its foreign reserves – nearly a sixth of the fund’s total value just a year ago. For this, Saudi Arabia will require a capable, accountable, and professional bureaucracy. Will the reforms work?

Revenue 11

Revenue Government Energy Scaling 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

The increasing use of phishing by cybercriminals to trick users into divulging their password credentials is the most alarming — a recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) found that 2016 was the worst year in history for phishing scams , with the number of attacks increasing 65% over 2015. journalists.

Government 8

Government User Experience Assets Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

By 2015 we'll have more Americans over 60 than under 15 — and that's just the beginning. Currently this is a do-it-yourself process most manageable for those with extensive assets or the willingness to drastically cut back. There are reports of boomers tapping into their kids 529 accounts to finance their own shift.

Nonprofit 8

Nonprofit Scaling Education Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

billion in 2015 for Alstom’s business of making coal-fired turbines for power plants. Over one-third of this plan’s assets are invested in GE shares , which are used by the company to match employee contributions. Similarly, the company overpaid for several problematic purchases — for example, $9.5

Cash Flow 8

Cash Flow Revenue Accounts Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

A recent study suggested that work-related stress in the UK in 2015-2016 accounted for 37% of all ill-health cases and 45% of all working days lost due to ill health across all industries and professions. Turning Stress into an Asset. The tipping point of distress. You and Your Team Series. Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan.

Assets 8

Assets Media Accounts Manager 8

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It was 2015 in December, and on a Friday evening, the office was buzzing. I was there to represent the Driver Growth Team — a critical team responsible for recruiting the scarcest asset in the entire business, Uber drivers. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks, Andrew. writing from Venice, CA. The Cold Start Problem. Introduction.

Scaling 63

Scaling Metrics Revenue Operations 63

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

We believe the founder’s mentality is a strategic asset. And as growth creates complexity, complexity becomes a silent killer of growth: 22% of executives cite a lack of accountability as the company expands and the rules become unclear. One of these is what we called the unscalable founder. How do we know?

Scaling 15

Scaling Revenue Marketing Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

“But the fact that you’ve been away” and presumably have learned a lot in the process “is an asset.” She returned in 2015. When Bridget left Profiles in 2013, she had been an account executive and social media strategist. …And reset your own, as well.

Onboarding 15

Onboarding B2C Media Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Furthermore, a 2015 study by Interaction Associates shows that high-trust companies “ are more than 2½ times more likely to be high performing revenue organizations ” than low-trust companies. Too many leaders are woefully unaware that trust is an asset that can be consciously increased and developed.

Employee Engagement 15

Employee Engagement Retention Sales Sales 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Perhaps most striking is the fact that data flows already accounted for $2.8 In 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens launched in 80 countries during its first week, and more than half of its record-breaking debut weekend box office came from overseas. trillion in 2014 alone. For many years, studios waited until after a movie’s U.S.

Scaling 8

Scaling Media Operations Marketing 8