UVA Darden

MARCH 20, 2023

Most of SVB’s deposits were from Silicon Valley startup companies and their venture capital backers, who parked money at the bank that the companies used for day-to-day operations, including paying employees. You can’t lose any savings as long as your savings or checking account doesn’t exceed $250,000.

Banking 45

Banking Balance Sheet Assets Insurance 45

Chief Executive

MAY 26, 2022

Manage your business “on the basis of cash, not on the basis of accounting,” Charan said, reminding his audience that Jeff Bezos built Amazon into a multi-billion-dollar company partly by putting cash on the throne of his operating philosophy. Accounts receivable and inventories are the two areas of biggest concern.

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Cash Flow Digital Transformation Fixed Costs Balance Sheet 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

But is there a direct correlation between employee investment and the balance sheet? Heskett wrote in his latest book The Culture Cycle , effective culture can account for 20-30 percent of the differential in corporate performance when compared with "culturally unremarkable" competitors.

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Balance Sheet Retention ROI Recruitment 21

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

“Finance and accounting are very simple. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “It’s not that complicated.”

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 21, 2016

There wasn’t room on the balance sheet for an expensive marketing spend. But Facebook found early traction on university campuses by requiring a college email address to create an account. For growth teams that are later in their cycle and are operating with millions of MAUs, there are more saturation effects.

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Engineering Marketing Balance Sheet Advertising 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It's great to see students get their shoes dusty with real-world forays, but I fear they are losing the ability to read a balance sheet or parse the kind of complex data they'd get in case-study coursework. And teaching methods have changed. Why shouldn't business schools and MBAs face the same discipline?

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Balance Sheet Education Recruitment Government 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gain accounting advantage : Buffett reports on the performance of his operating businesses by grouping them according to similar balance sheet and income statement characteristics. His fluency in the language of accounting gives him clear sight to judge underlying business value.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Insurance Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Shouldn't all shoppers receive customized shopping recommendations, based on past behavior, integrated with their online accounts and delivered to their mobile devices? Doing this right will allow the CFO to keep the store as an asset on the balance sheet, not a liability — a move shareholders would surely reward.

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Balance Sheet eCommerce Media Assets 15

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 28, 2011

Just over the past year or so, we've seen formerly "best in class" companies like Goldman Sachs , Toyota , BP , and Johnson & Johnson take huge hits to their reputations (and balance sheets) in ways that no one could have predicted. This kind of thinking (and worrying) has the potential to let managers off the hook.

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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 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Finance & Accounting Tool. That statement records cash generated by a company’s operations and cash spent on those operations; cash spent on capital assets (and cash generated by the sale of capital assets); and cash received from, or paid to, lenders and shareholders. You have to account for the time value of money.

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ROI Cash Flow Revenue Balance Sheet 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Working to find and fix errors is part and parcel of most operational processes, and once they turn a harsh eye on non-value-added work, most leaders can root it out. While in everyday language, it is plain enough that poor-quality data are liabilities and high-quality data are assets, they don't appear on the balance sheet.

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Balance Sheet Operations Assets Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Once a transaction is entered in the database and the accounts are updated, the records cannot be altered, because they’re linked to every transaction record that came before them (hence the term “chain”). First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing.

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Travel Balance Sheet Banking Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

” Another reason you might see a very high ROA is if a company is messing with its balance sheet, explains Knight. Return on equity is a similar calculation, but it looks at equity, the net worth of the company, not by what it owns, but by the accounting rules. Take Enron. The energy-trading company had a very high ROA.

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Assets Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. Recent research lets us make an even bolder claim: accounting earnings are practically irrelevant for digital companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

The reason is that AP accounts for a large chunk of the total portfolio of the major MFIs in India — the Economic Times of India estimates that AP accounts for 40% of all microfinance loans in the country. A large exposure to AP with its abysmal repayment rates is an existential crisis for MFIs in India.

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Balance Sheet Banking Marketing Accounts 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

But after hearing Fastow speak twice to my Financial Statement Accounting class and reviewing independent evidence, I think I have good idea. Enron was rated BBB+ (or the equivalent) by all three rating agencies, which typically include all off balance sheet debt when determining a rating. He didn''t say which decisions.

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Balance Sheet Assets Cash Flow Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

But there is a second equilibrium where this cycle operates in reverse gear. But for banks, equity is a vanishingly small fraction of their balance sheet." In " Fair Value in Foul Weather ," he offers an entertaining and even-handed history and analysis of the debate over market-value accounting for banks.

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. ” Accountability: How do you keep track of what your colleagues are doing when you can’t see them? A deadline.

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Balance Sheet Travel Accounts Project Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

These are often overlooked on balance sheets but can generate significant extra value for companies. Demand charges can account for 30% to 70% of the typical bill. But managing energy use—whether across a full corporation or just a single property—is as important as managing any other class of operating costs.

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Manager Energy Balance Sheet Accounts 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless. Will that asset be operational or retain its value over the normal depreciation period? Holding global warming to 2-degrees Celsius will require keeping huge quantities of fossil fuels in the ground.

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Assets Balance Sheet Real Estate Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

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Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 10

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

JANUARY 16, 2017

Their operating environment changes in a way they don’t recognize, or they take on a project that they believe is within their capability but isn’t. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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Government Balance Sheet Performance Review Manager 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

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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Banking Balance Sheet Assets Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

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Marketing Balance Sheet Compensation Benefits 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. It bills itself as a way of connecting drivers and passengers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Some are branded currencies , like the points in a loyalty program or the cash in an iTunes account or Starbucks mobile app. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. Intellectual capital.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 14

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.

Banking 14

Banking Balance Sheet Government Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations. China, which accounted for 16% of the world’s net global surplus capital in 2005 now accounts for only 1%.

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Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I share why reconciling accounts, preparing for taxes, and analyzing financial performance are crucial steps. They've not done a really good job reconciling their bank accounts. And the reason why is because most of the time, a lot of business owners have not been trained to do their accounting properly.

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