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. ” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015. Innovation capacity is the organization’s potential for innovation.

Assets 15

Assets Revenue Government Operations 15

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

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. in 2014.

Assets 15

Assets Operations Revenue Energy 15

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

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

Assets 12

Assets Operations Insurance Telecommunications 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

control the lion’s share of revenue for originating and placing insurance, a process that labors under an unnecessary burden of friction, regulatory pressure, and agency issues, for which blockchain is well-suited to help the industry modernize. The top 10 insurance brokers in the U.S.

Insurance 15

Insurance Balance Sheet Assets Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanics as viable assets to cultivating economic growth. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report. For too many years, Hispanics (and other minority groups) have been perceived as a liability, rather than as an asset to cultivate growth. Obama and Romney have yet to consistently represent U.S.

Education 16

Education Revenue Government Diversity 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

We believe this segment could generate meaningful revenue in the near term. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Samsung expects the bulk of this opportunity to be driven by the U.S., Australia and China.

Transportation 15

Transportation Revenue Energy Assets 15

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. 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.

Manager 15

Manager Revenue Metrics Cash Flow 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

During a six-month period from December 2015 to May 2016 , Disney has cleaned the clock with a 25% market share in box office with Star Wars sequel, the Jungle Book , and Captain America: Civil War. Each film brand has many characters with imaginative stories that serve as franchisable assets. By contrast, Warner Bros.’

Assets 15

Assets Revenue Marketing Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

They begin with different values, invest in different assets, and choose different leaders. New talent is one of the first requirements, but companies that want to adapt their business model to digital platforms need the willingness to build and manage an entirely different sort of asset. Difficult, but not impossible.

Digital Transformation 13

Digital Transformation Assets Real Estate Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba’s growth domestic product per capita in 2015 is approximately what it was in 1985. It has tourism—beach and sun and one of the communist world’s last Jurassic political systems—but the real asset is the brains of its people. pharmaceutical company could be a great asset in the future.

Government 14

Government Travel Assets Education 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3 A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5 Airbnb has raised approximately $2.3

Software 14

Software B2B Marketing Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). In the digital economy, value is found in three assets: people (both customers and employees), data, and products. Empowerment and Alignment.

Assets 14

Assets Scaling Operations Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

There were companies with revenues over $100 billion and with revenues under $5 billion. A great example of that is Honda’s Assembly Revolution Cell (ARC) line , which was built from scratch, in 2015, for the company’s new Prachinburi plant, in Thailand. There were Japanese manufacturers and Chinese manufacturers.

Operations 14

Operations Revenue Assets Implementation 14

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.

Marketing 14

Marketing Government Transportation Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

household participates in 29 different loyalty programs, according to the 2015 Colloquy Loyalty Census. Loyalty programs have long relied on cobranded cards and partnerships to sell points and generate incremental revenue. Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors.

Travel 15

Travel Balance Sheet Banking Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Saudi Arabia’s vast global role on oil markets as a major producer, exporter, and decision-maker within OPEC is reciprocal; the country relies on oil exports for over 90% of its government revenue, making the Saudi budget, and hence the state itself, exceptionally dependent on this one source of revenue. Will the reforms work?

Revenue 11

Revenue Government Energy Scaling 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

There are four essential elements to the formula: revenues, cost structure, margins, and resource velocity. 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.

Digital Transformation 15

Digital Transformation Advertising Scaling Assets 15

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.

Hospitality 13

Hospitality Insurance Revenue User Experience 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

BI does this by turning an organization’s data into an asset by having the right data, at the right time and place (mobile, laptop, etc), and displayed in the right visual form (heat map, charts, etc) for each individual decision-maker, so they can use it to reach their desired outcome.

Banking 15

Banking Assets Marketing Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

raises less corporate tax revenue than peer countries do, and the system is mind-numbingly complex, rife with distortion, and widely perceived to be unfair. 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. Further, U.S.

Revenue 11

Revenue Government Accounts Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

They must retain enough control over core assets to maintain control of the ecosystem and to make money. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Yet platforms can become too open. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4

Software 14

Software Assets Marketing Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

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%. The remaining was invested in business, stocks, real estate, jewelry, or “benami” assets, which are bought in someone else’s name.

Banking 14

Banking Government Sales Sales 14

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

OCTOBER 10, 2016

” Indeed, Mars International committed to investing $160 million in building a confectionary factory in Pune in 2015. While sourcing locally can reduce costs, new entrants also need creative ways to build revenues from India. This does not automatically mean companies should be investing large sums in an Indian factory, however.

Marketing 12

Marketing Sales Sales Transportation 12

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.

Inclusion 19

Inclusion Real Estate Marketing Diversity 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanics as viable assets to cultivating economic growth. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report. For too many years, Hispanics (and other minority groups) have been perceived as a liability, rather than as an asset to cultivate growth. Obama and Romney have yet to consistently represent U.S.

Education 9

Education Revenue Government Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Similarly, Facebook’s Blueprint courseware initiative launched in 2015 champions new user capability. The platform investment model suggests a framework of next steps for organizations that want to go beyond better matchmaking: See and segment users as assets.

Insurance 13

Insurance Advertising Education User Experience 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in its power business.) Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago. of the company.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Revenue Assets Digital Transformation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

It’s not just the loss of tax revenue — in fact, as you can see in the chart below, corporate tax revenue has been shrinking as a percentage of economic activity for decades. Going back to Argument 1 and Argument 2, you could portray this ineffectuality of the tax code as evidence of nothing other than corporate dastardliness.

Revenue 8

Revenue Sales Sales Government 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

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The story can then be referenced to justify business decisions that build, rather than erode, the fundamental assets that underlie long-term value creation: trust-based relationships and distinctive firm capabilities. Muster the Courage to Set Realistic Targets. CEOs have a great deal of control over the financial targets they set.

Metrics 12

Metrics Operations Travel Assets 12

Peter Winick

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Five people that ultimately resulted in a 30, 40% increment to our revenue for that year? Do they even know to how to find the asset that we’ve created? Are we talking about asset managers that have funds in the you know, the hundreds of millions? But it was only in 2015 that I had that realization. Wait a minute.

Marketing 242

Marketing Scaling B2B Advertising 242

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. It was 2015 in December, and on a Friday evening, the office was buzzing. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks, Andrew. writing from Venice, CA.

Scaling 63

Scaling Metrics Revenue Operations 63

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Unilever paid five times what Dollar Shave Club was expecting for revenues this year. million Series D in November 2015 — Dollar Shave Club had been valued at $630 million, according to Pitchbook. Edgewell makes 60% of its revenue from razors (its Schick brand) and shaving cream. The deal is full of intriguing details.

Revenue 13

Revenue Marketing Engineering Sales 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

We believe the founder’s mentality is a strategic asset. Some 55% of executives cite the problem of revenue growing faster than talent: The company grows so quickly that it has trouble attracting the quality and amount of talent that it needs. One of these is what we called the unscalable founder. That is rare.

Scaling 15

Scaling Revenue Marketing Insurance 15