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.

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Accounts Assets Insurance Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them. The remaining was invested in business, stocks, real estate, jewelry, or “benami” assets, which are bought in someone else’s name. instead of 7%.

Banking 14

Banking Government Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. For example, in January 2016, Saudi Arabia announced far-reaching cutbacks of domestic subsidies for energy and water, a political no-go area for politicians across the region only a few years ago.

Revenue 11

Revenue Government Energy Scaling 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

The water industry is using digital technologies and analytics to derive more value from its physical assets. According to a 2016 report from the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel , water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030. And demand is increasing. For example, many U.S. types of problems, magnitude, location, etc.)

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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. November 2016). Empowerment and Alignment.

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Assets Scaling Operations Metrics 13

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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

For evidence of the magnitude of the challenge, we only need to look at the long-term collapse of return on assets for all the U.S.’s ’s public companies: From 1965 to today, return on assets has declined by 75%. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. What is to be done? Who can do all this?

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Assets Scaling Revenue Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Each year, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, sends a much-anticipated letter to leading CEOs. In addition, less than four years from now, Social Security costs are projected to begin exceeding revenues until that program’s Trust Fund is fully depleted in 2034. Phil Ashley/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. This includes cutting unnecessary costs—but it also means finding ways to increase revenue. Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher. 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

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. Assets reported on a balance sheet have to be physical in nature, have to be owned by the company, and be within the company’s confines.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

One young female banker we interviewed for our 2016 report “Women in Financial Services” even told us, “I came into my career in financial services with aspirations to make it to the top. This represents significant lost revenue for the industry — as much as $5 trillion in potential revenue in the U.S.

Banking 15

Banking Revenue Human Resources Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies.

Software 14

Software B2B Marketing Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

A Hidden Champion is defined by three criteria: 1) a company has to be among the top three in the world in its industry, and first on its continent; 2) its revenue must be below €5 billion; and 3) it should be little known to the general public. The high taxes on assets in France and the inheritance tax in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

She pushed her teams to move to 24/7 monitoring of all digital assets — owned sites, customer sites, and social media channels. L’Oréal now spends 32% of its net media budget on digital channels, and saw e-commerce sales jump by 33% in 2016 alone. Invest in Lifelong Learning.

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Digital Transformation User Experience Media Sales 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Yet, despite this extraordinary set of assets in the hands of Uber’s new CEO, few would diminish the challenges facing Khosrowshahi, especially because he must proceed under the watchful eye of his predecessor, founder Travis Kalanick, who remains a board member and the biggest owner of voting shares of stock.

Energy 14

Energy Revenue Marketing Assets 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

JULY 11, 2017

In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 Indeed, integration of digital assets is a huge, thorny problem fraught with cultural issues. times Vormetric’s sales.

Assets 8

Assets Advertising Digital Transformation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

They must retain enough control over core assets to maintain control of the ecosystem and to make money. In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested. 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

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. This was gauged by assessing the percent of revenue outside the core that can be attributed to new growth.

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Revenue Metrics Accounts Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

While sourcing locally can reduce costs, new entrants also need creative ways to build revenues from India. In terms of e-commerce, 130 million Indians will make an online purchase in 2016. Drop product prices and boost volume growth. Leverage scale and cost efficiencies and export products to neighboring countries.

Marketing 12

Marketing Sales Sales Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

There were more than 5,000 craft breweries in the United States alone in 2016, compared with 1,400 a decade ago, according to Statista. Previously strong barriers to entry have perished; fixed assets such as car fleets, hotels, bank branches, and landline infrastructure have become weaknesses. Others are exploring subscription models.

Assets 8

Assets Transportation Revenue Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. At the very least, technology acquisitions fail to turn around troubled companies.

Engineering 14

Engineering Revenue Assets Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B will grow to U.S. $5

Assets 8

Assets Marketing Operations Benefits 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” There, in the shadow of Google’s global headquarters, the audience laughed on cue, quickly grokking the embarrassing point: it’s 2016 and this $3 trillion industry that our lives depend upon still relies on faxes, clipboards, and isolated instances of legacy software locked away in hospital basements. Networked knowledge.

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Hospitality Administration Transportation Fixed Costs 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In particular, our research shows how digitization can significantly hurt incumbent firms in many industries — depleting as much as half the revenue growth and one-third of earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) growth of companies that neglect to embrace digital innovations.

Digital Transformation 8

Digital Transformation Revenue Assets Banking 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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

GE’s pension deficit exploded between 2010 and 2016, as the company spent $40 billion on stock buybacks in a futile effort to boost its stock price. Over one-third of this plan’s assets are invested in GE shares , which are used by the company to match employee contributions.

Cash Flow 8

Cash Flow Revenue Accounts Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. And the amount they spend on proprietary software is huge — $250 billion in 2016, nearly as much as they invested in physical capital net of depreciation.

Software 8

Software Scaling Assets Government 8

Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But if things go south in our business, geez, we've got assets we've got, you know, there's all kinds of stuff that we still have. million above when we focus on revenue opportunities, we find $2.1 If we sold everything out of the business and chain, we're doing pretty good. You know, the last thing I want to do is do that.

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Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

growth has pushed state revenues more than $1.4 Be in Illinois,” a new multimedia campaign launched this year, showcases the state’s assets, workforce and central location. Automotive technology company Rivian, whose presence in the state goes back to 2016, rolled its first truck off the manufacturing line last year.

Energy 52

Energy Transportation Strategic Planning Engineering 52

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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Today, the Park creates incredible social value, but also provides billions in economic value through higher tax revenue, tourism, consumer spending, and real estate appreciation.

Government 14

Government Nonprofit Hospitality Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

But it only makes the ROA problem worse: companies end up burdened with more unspent cash and a bigger block of dead, unproductive assets. And if corporations convert too many assets from the working and business economies into pure capital, then the whole system seizes up for lack of fuel.

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Assets Balance Sheet Operations A/B Testing 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

2016 was the year the online job listing finally went belly up. First, here’s what happened in 2016. Additionally, the assets for Simply Hired were acquired by Japan’s Recruit, which also owns Indeed. Founder Richard Johnson mortgaged his house and liquidated other assets to fund the $1.4 million cost of the ad.

Recruitment 40

Recruitment Revenue Sales Sales 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Venezuela represented only 1% of total revenues. Exodus of Multinationals. Companies should hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Government 8

Government Operations Energy Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

If current trends in sea level rise continue, do we want to allocate investment toward protecting potentially exposed assets like airports and housing in low-lying areas? Basically one arm of government gives up tax revenue so that another arm can support a project…without either of them writing a check.

Banking 12

Banking Assets Real Estate Government 12