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The Evolution of Work – New Realities Facing Today’s Leaders

AIHR

As we gathered and unpacked the data during the study’s first phase (conducted in April 2017), five “new realities” emerged that were considered both highly probable and likely to have a big impact on global public policy makers, organizational leaders, and employees seeking to navigate opportunities in the future of work. Reality No.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business Review

This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement. Let’s first look at the balance sheet. Therefore, the balance sheets of physical and digital companies present entirely different pictures.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business Review

That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.

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Coastal Cities Are Increasingly Vulnerable, and So Is the Economy that Relies on Them

Harvard Business Review

That means that many of our great, low-lying coastal cities are what we call “stranded assets.” A 2017 survey found that the majority of property buyers (over two-thirds) don’t ask even their brokers about the implications of climate change and sea level rise on the properties they are buying.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

We believe that it is not the age of the asset that is important, but rather, the value infused into that asset that drives scale. We taught lending officers how to talk to businesses that were afraid that taking debt onto their balance sheets was riskier than maintaining a flat-growth business.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. So far in 2017, GE is the worst-performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In the case of P&G, 40% of its stock was owned by small investors, helping the company fight off a 2017 proxy battle with Trian.). Then it wasn’t.