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

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 13

Scaling Banking Balance Sheet Sales 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

But most banks simply found that found that margins and profits in foreign markets where they lacked scale or sufficient local knowledge were lower than returns on domestic business. In 2005, the United States absorbed 67% of all net global capital flows; by 2016, that share had fallen by half.

Banking 8

Banking Assets Balance Sheet Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet. 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