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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. Model 1: Virtual operator.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

Southwest operates in an industry that has long been obsessed with asset utilization as the key to competitiveness. And making the minute-by-minute decisions required to maximize asset utilization is unquestionably done better by smart machines. Therefore, they cease to provide a competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

This is the stuff that’s easy to buy, and that organizations tend to spend too much on: assets and resources. This includes technology and people, as well as tangible, intangible, and financial assets. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

All kinds of companies had failed at operational flexibility. The third trait that many masters share is the use of flexible plant designs and multiskilled, or cross-trained, machine operators. Equally important, the ARC operators learn to solve a broad range of production challenges, another boost to flexibility and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail sales through digital channels (including mobile sales) increased by a massive 23% in 2015. company, which operates hundreds of retail stores across the country. 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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It’s a story as old as business itself: a company generates a byproduct in the course of its routine operations, then discovers that another company is willing to pay for it. Businesses are already generating it in the course of normal operations. In 2015, the digital universe contained 4.4 zettabytes. (A

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Nestlé announced plans to cut its staff in some central African countries, while Barclays’s new CEO is considering selling off the bank’s Africa assets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

They begin with different values, invest in different assets, and choose different leaders. For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies. Difficult, but not impossible.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Their ability to act with limited information in a complex environment is perhaps their greatest asset. In a 2015 report, the Boston Consulting Group labeled the occurrence “ leapfrog successions.” ” The shift is especially noteworthy when it occurs at the highest levels.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. This age is ripe with opportunity. But for traditional firms, they’re a whole new world.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested. Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

And it’s powerful stuff, especially coming from the world’s largest asset owner. ” The 2015 letter : We see “acute pressure…for companies to meet short-term financial goals at the expense of building long-term value.” Stranded assets are not worth much.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. is spinning off its fossil fuel-burning assets and choosing to focus on renewables. And here’s what to watch out for in 2015: Political winds shifting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. For a period of 14 years, General Electric had the same American expat running the India operation, Scott Bayman. Understanding it takes time and focus.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

While investing in such material assets is easily done and provides immediate gratification, findings from our research using six years of data from nearly 3,000 acute-care hospitals suggest that it is the communication between caregivers and patients that has the largest impact on reducing readmissions. They are increasingly found in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

This gap between insurers and customers can be widened into a gulf by trust brokers, who dominate the top-heavy insurance brokerage market and benefit from its opacity and byzantine operating standards. In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

So, in August 2015 we secured board approval to create an innovation committee of 14 top executives and a full-time innovation strategy team of five people, to orchestrate the portfolio of specific initiatives that would create a new way of innovating throughout the company. More than 600 were selected. Three key insights.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Key Resources are the assets that are required to deliver the CVP to the customer at a profit, meaning the people, technology, products, facilities, equipment, channels, and brand. Key Processes are the operational and managerial capabilities that allow a company to deliver value in a way that can be repeated and scaled. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. Among their trophies in 2014 was a complete housecleaning at Darden Restaurants, the largest operator of full-service restaurants in the U.S. and with half of its fund assets indexed, it is not going anywhere if it does not like its portfolios’ strategies or results.

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Assets Risk Management Government Recruitment 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. A rare natural experiment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. They must retain enough control over core assets to maintain control of the ecosystem and to make money.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. These new ventures would operate separately from the core hospital assets and would compete in new ways in the health care marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The cost of solar and wind are falling rapidly ; in fact, a few days before the new EPA announcement, Xcel Energy, which provides power to the American heartland, revealed that it was acquiring extensive wind and solar assets, “all at prices below fossil fuel alternatives.” The program delivered $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine. Sometimes David can triumph over Goliath.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

household participates in 29 different loyalty programs, according to the 2015 Colloquy Loyalty Census. Such platforms would add a transaction layer between consumers and program operators and merchants, likely generating a small per-transaction cost, which could grow over time, much like OTA fees. The average U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations. 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.

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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 intention was right, but there was no operational impact. In 2015, a sales rep earned commission on everything they closed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. This requires taking a fresh look at all assets and how they are used. Even smaller cities like Portland, Nashville, and Austin are attempting to curb their own deep-seated divides.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

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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. In terms of more incremental reforms, a minimum tax would ensure that companies operating in the lowest tax countries pay at least some level of taxes. Further, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation forces wholesale change to the foundations of an enterprise — from its operating model to its infrastructure, what it sells, and to whom and how. Industries dominated by information-rich assets (think publishing and music) were swept up in the early wave of internet innovation. No industry is immune.

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