Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Nordstrom and Home Depot announced large-scale mobile solutions for their associates to help digitally enabled shoppers. Shouldn't all shoppers receive customized shopping recommendations, based on past behavior, integrated with their online accounts and delivered to their mobile devices? But many retailers seem a bit overwhelmed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Insolvency is usually a balance sheet concept based around the valuation of assets. In fact national borrowing on the modern scale really only began around the seventeenth century. You are insolvent when you can't pay your debts. Households and firms have struggled with insolvency for centuries.

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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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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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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

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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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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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. Invest in smart controls. Almost as important as cutting total energy use is controlling when electricity is needed. More or less every major company in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

billion, blaming $5 billion of the writedown on improper accounting. Right now, regulators are investigating whether Autonomy actually engaged in improper accounting. KPMG, the big accounting firm, was helping HP with its due diligence by inspecting Autonomy's books. Financial numbers, though, are different.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless. The scale of the downside is so large, it’s worth significant effort and investment to avoid it. Holding global warming to 2-degrees Celsius will require keeping huge quantities of fossil fuels in the ground.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Insolvency is usually a balance sheet concept based around the valuation of assets. In fact national borrowing on the modern scale really only began around the seventeenth century. You are insolvent when you can't pay your debts. Households and firms have struggled with insolvency for centuries.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

But the recent attempt to launch a major infrastructure program in the euro zone – the so-called “ Juncker plan ” – illustrates that such proposals are hindered by politics, are rarely timely, and are often insufficient in scale to make a real difference to the larger economy. We need new policies.

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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. China, which accounted for 16% of the world’s net global surplus capital in 2005 now accounts for only 1%.

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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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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. bank of scale. And you’re not going to be able to have a conversation with the CEO about your accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

It's co-authored with a couple new colleagues of his at the Bank of England (one a former tax lawyer , the other a physicist ), and scores higher than average on the Haldane wonkiness scale. But for banks, equity is a vanishingly small fraction of their balance sheet." Now Haldane (and Davies) have made me less dubious.

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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.

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By leveraging stories, media, and technology, she’s scaling her impact and empowering entrepreneurs to build wealth and achieve lasting success. As technology advanced, Ruth embraced AI to scale her impact. Rooted in her decades of expertise, this tool standardizes processes and delivers insights at scale—no Zoom required.

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