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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The success of institutional-investment firms is socioeconomically vital: Their task is to grow the financial assets needed to fund retirements, development, education, scientific research, and many other capabilities associated with pensions, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, and the like.

Operations 12

Operations Assets Media Scaling 12

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. types of problems, magnitude, location, etc.)

Assets 13

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

While there is little prospect for political reform on a wider scale — Saudi Arabia is and remains a traditional monarchy with limited public participation in policymaking — the current reform process is an important one, and one indicative of the sort of the socio-economic challenges the Gulf oil producers increasingly face.

Revenue 11

Revenue Government Energy Scaling 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

We ranked cyber attacks as the biggest threat facing the business world today — ahead of terrorism, asset bubbles, and other risks. For example, in 2016 a script kiddie sparked a broad denial-of-service attack impacting Twitter, Spotify, and other well-known internet services as amateurs joined in for mischief purposes.

Banking 14

Banking Assets Risk Management Accounts 14

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

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

Scaling 12

Scaling Banking Balance Sheet Sales 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Large-scale, government-directed discrimination against a group of people is extremely damaging to those being targeted. In Turkey, several thousand executives who follow the cleric Fethullah Gulen have been arrested or have fled overseas since 2016, fueling concerns of an economic collapse. MirageC/Getty Images. percentage points.

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Government Assets Education Manager 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

The leaders of the Hidden Champions stay at the helm for an average of 20 years; according to Strategy&, which collects data on the world’s largest 2,500 companies, in large firms the average CEO tenure from 2012 – 2016 was only seven years, and the median was even shorter, at five and a half years.

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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

Once sales reach levels that impress the C-Suite, justifying an investment in factories is no longer risky or difficult; for example Amway relied on third party manufacturing for its initial entry and once volumes reached sufficient scale, it invested in a 50-acre facility in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu.

Marketing 12

Marketing Sales Sales Transportation 12

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. Our current financial accounting model cannot capture the principle value creator for digital companies: increasing return to scale on intangible investments.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Revenue Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

But the scale of the problem means cybersecurity should be a concern for every executive, from HR to Marketing. Ranked by number of incidents, they are: Miscellaneous errors : Unintentional actions or mistakes that compromise security (excluding the loss of assets). The risk is growing.

Hospitality 10

Hospitality Assets Operations Software 10

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. Failure of imagination.

Software 14

Software Assets Marketing Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. Take, for example, providers of cloud-based web services, which give young companies access to scale benefits and flexibility previously unavailable to them. But this inclusive approach may require some uncomfortable choices.

Inclusion 14

Inclusion Education Scaling Benefits 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a neat metaphor, “Risky Business” calculates that there’s a 1 in 20 chance — equal to the chances of “an American developing colon cancer” — that more than $730 billion of coastal assets will be at high risk in the coming years. These long-term numbers are just for scale and to, well, scare us into action. (The

Energy 10

Energy Scaling Assets Administration 10

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.

Hospitality 12

Hospitality Administration Transportation Fixed Costs 12

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Digital Transformation 15

Digital Transformation Banking Government Inclusion 15

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.

Assets 8

Assets Transportation Revenue Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

For example, MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines’ Electome Project analyzed massive Twitter activity data sets to improve reporting around the 2016 U.S. presidential election; and LinkedIn’s Economic Graph Research Program is enabling new knowledge on economic conditions and job-seeking behaviors.

Media 13

Media Nonprofit Assets Government 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

” For example, the Swedish AP funds, in collaboration with other investors in 2016, engaged ten companies regarding the management of fish and shellfish throughout supply chains and several companies that purchase cobalt mines in the Congo. First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard.

Assets 8

Assets Metrics Marketing Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

As it turned out, having no predetermined way of doing things turned out to be an asset when it came to reinventing retailing and television, and these leaders kept that outsider’s perspective even through waves of growth. TEO Ming Kian , Director at Temasek and Chairman at Vertex Holdings.

Revenue 15

Revenue Metrics Accounts Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Fast forward to 2016, and almost all of RedBalloon’s brand advertising was invested in traditional media outlets like radio, print, billboards, and pop-up retail stores. The company’s cost of new customer acquisition had ballooned from 5 cents to $50.

Sales Funnel 8

Sales Funnel Advertising Media Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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. Economies of scale are certainly part of the answer. Network effects, or “demand-side economies of scale,” are another likely culprit.

Software 8

Software Scaling Assets Government 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Without Ghosn, the Nissan-Renault alliance is likely to falter — leaving two small auto manufacturers without competitive economies of scale. The ratio of cross holdings to total shares at Japanese companies (excluding shares held by insurers) has fallen on average from 35% in 1990 to 10% in 2016, according to Nikko Asset Management.

Government 9

Government Compensation Insurance Accounts 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations. Think of customer reps who support the biggest investors at asset management companies like Fidelity and Putnam. So how do you keep them?

Retention 8

Retention Human Resources Compensation Sales 8

Get Lighthouse

JUNE 23, 2023

Since those big moments of press and praise, the luster and excitement for having a flat organizational structure has turned to failure and postmortems: Github gave up on it during its public turmoil in 2016. As Boston-based Wistia found as they grew from 2 to 30 to over 60 people, a flat structure went from an asset to a blocker.

Scaling 133

Scaling Manager Accounts Engineering 133

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 9, 2024

Rippling started in 2016 with headquarters in San Francisco, US; ever since, it has experienced significant growth, serving over 2000 customers in 2024 as per the latest reports. Its modular architecture allows organizations to tailor their solution and scale up or down as needed. The current headquarters are located in Austin, Texas.

Software 64

Software Compliance Onboarding Administration 64

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Getting to 1.5 auto industry.

Scaling 15

Scaling Government Energy Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

One of the hardest acts in business is scaling a business rapidly and profitably. The title of our book celebrates the internal energy and sense of insurgency that propels rapidly growing companies, but the book also warns of four predictable internal growth barriers that all too often trip up these companies during their pursuit of scale.

Scaling 15

Scaling Revenue Marketing Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Consider Pokemon Go, the viral sensation of Summer 2016 and the most popular smartphone game in history. As they outgrew the garage, Hewlett and Packard sought to maintain that entrepreneurial spirit on a larger scale. ” Starting in the late 1990s, a series of CEOs saw the HP Way as a liability rather than an asset. .”

Scaling 14

Scaling Marketing Assets Software 14

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. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. Not surprisingly, more and more businesses are becoming certified for their social responsibility practices.

Government 14

Government Nonprofit Hospitality Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

And in November, after the Philippines faced the most powerful storm ever recorded to hit land, some climatologists suggested we add a “Category 6” to the top end of the storm scale. And Lego just announced its intention to use 100% renewable energy by 2016. Can challenges to our consumption-driven model go gain currency?

Energy 14

Energy Government Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

As Generation Investment Management put it in “ The Transformation of Growth ,” their 2017 white paper, “The Sustainability Revolution appears to have the scale of the Industrial Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution — and the speed of the Information Revolution. and 7.7%, respectively.

Government 8

Government Energy Scaling Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They need density—what’s known as a “thick market” in trading financial assets—more than just scale. percent in March 2016. There have to be enough members of both groups that could exchange value to make it worthwhile for either. We made an early call, on Dec. percent in November 2014, to 0.8

Assets 12

Assets Banking Marketing Scaling 12

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. The speed and scale on which this is occurring helps us recognize that we are not in a cyclical downturn as corporations attempt to compensate for the disruptive impact of digital technology.

Assets 8

Assets Balance Sheet Operations A/B Testing 8