Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Insolvency is usually a balance sheet concept based around the valuation of assets. All governments in practice secure their national debts on their abilities to levy taxes. With the passing of the monarchical governance structure, responsibility for a nation's debt moved from the rulers to the ruled.

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Balance Sheet Banking Assets Government 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures?

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Balance Sheet Benchmarking Strategic Planning Government 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Banks have developed fortress balance sheets, improving credit quality by 54 percent, increasing net income and, restoring aggregate lending to pre-crisis levels of nearly $7 trillion. A lot of investors seem to get this — which helps explain why Vanguard has grown to account for 17% of mutual fund assets in the U.S.,

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Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

Given Groupon's past history of inventive accounting , this should have been a shock to no one, but if it had been able to go public under the JOBS Act rules, Sorkin hypothesizes, it might have been able to cover that up. My initial impression is that both the pro- and anti-JOBS Act arguments might be getting some things backwards.

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Balance Sheet Accounts Marketing Government 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

For example, the level of trust in a society—in government institutions, in the courts, in fellow citizens, all measured separately—has a big impact on prosperity, as does access to opportunity—the perception that good work will be rewarded.

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Balance Sheet Benchmarking Advertising Assets 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Problem-finding boards understand the three drivers of ungoverned incompetence — a collapse of competence, shortcomings in self-governance, and inadequate corporate governance — and why they can be so hard to detect. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. Collapse of Competence.

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Government Balance Sheet Performance Review Manager 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making. Mark Chussil.

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Risk Management Manager Balance Sheet Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Insolvency is usually a balance sheet concept based around the valuation of assets. All governments in practice secure their national debts on their abilities to levy taxes. With the passing of the monarchical governance structure, responsibility for a nation's debt moved from the rulers to the ruled.

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Balance Sheet Banking Assets Government 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

The traditional response to the problem of insufficient demand is government-led infrastructure spending. Yes, no doubt many countries would benefit from better infrastructure, and the current low cost of borrowing for governments suggests that it would be a good time to make such investments.

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Banking Assets Government Balance Sheet 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Failure to present a groundbreaking new vision risks leaving in place old economic drivers, especially the over-reliance on fixed-asset investment, that have created serious challenges such as China’s “ghost cities” and high levels of local government debt. The central government must start to give more tax revenues to local governments.

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Balance Sheet Government Revenue Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

While the large banks are at the center of this trust vacuum — with a seemingly steady stream of scandals, such as the recent Wells Fargo account rigging debacle — the erosion of trust is bad for everyone.

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Insurance Balance Sheet Assets Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

There's little or no evidence that the modern criteria for good corporate governance actually lead to better-governed corporations. There's little or no evidence that the modern criteria for good corporate governance actually lead to better-governed corporations. What could possibly go wrong ?

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Government Balance Sheet Banking Compensation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The first whistleblower — using facts — is former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford , who uncovered a huge accounting fraud at the company. Then accounting changes forced them to cover up the losses in a different way. These funds were used to fill the balance sheet hole caused by the prior derivative losses.

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Balance Sheet Government Accounts Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It shifted debt from the private side of the country’s balance sheet to the public side. The result has been that the government has a lot of debt, while households are in better shape than in decades. Indeed, it could even turn positive. Abundant Capital. The Great Recession did what recessions tend to do.

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Balance Sheet Energy Biotech Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Others, like Morning Star and Zappos, are taking a more networked approach to the way the company is managed and governed. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Intellectual capital. Money itself is becoming more intelligent and connected.

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Assets Software Balance Sheet Human Resources 8

Chief Executive

MARCH 14, 2023

The Biden administration made sure SVB’s failure didn’t become a global financial contagion, partly by guaranteeing all deposits in the bank beyond the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation coverage of $250,000 per account. Big banks may have fortress balance sheets, but you don’t really know what’s on them,” Holland noted.

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Accounts 98

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

In " Control Rights (and Wrongs) ," Haldane explains the basic problem with modern bank governance: "Ownership and control rights are exercised by shareholders. But for banks, equity is a vanishingly small fraction of their balance sheet." But every time I dipped into one I was rewarded. writing stuff like this?

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet shows that, since 2008, "deposits by depository institutions" (i.e. quantitative easing (QE) flooded the banks with money that, as noted above, they've kept in their accounts with the Fed rather than lending out. The power of this "pushing on a string" metaphor is especially apparent today.

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Assets 15

Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Despite stiff economic headwinds, robust M&A opportunities are there for the taking, with many companies enjoying steady cash flows and strong balance sheets. “In In today’s high-inflation environment, strategic acquirers with lots of cash on the balance sheet need to do something with it,” says Christopher R.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Software Marketing 52