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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. The 2% fee is cash compensation, paid annually, regardless of VC firm investment activity or performance. The 2% fee is cash compensation, paid annually, regardless of VC firm investment activity or performance. What if LPs structured VC compensation that way?

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If the Auditors Sign Off, Does That Make It Okay?

Harvard Business Review

And he was not compensated for his presentation to my class.). The mispriced investments and derivatives at Enron look similar to mortgage-backed securities at banks or companies with a disproportionate amount of Level 3 fair-value assets (illiquid assets with highly subjective estimated values). million in cash and property.

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The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance

Harvard Business Review

Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. 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. . • The largest U.S.

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Talent Management When the Old Outnumber the Young

Harvard Business Review

Children have shifted on the "great balance sheet of life" — from assets in an agrarian society to liabilities in an industrial society — and people are choosing to have fewer. How should you provide additional compensation opportunities? China fell from 5.8 children per woman in 1950 to 2.3

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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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A New Way to Think About Office Lighting

Harvard Business Review

Third-party ownership models, which separate the ownership of an asset from the service it provides, have transformed other industries for the better. They receive compensation appropriate to this risk assumption and have the indirect benefit of higher sales through greater uptake of lighting upgrades. number of copies each month).

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business Review

Companies can be divided into two types , in terms of how they approach hiring and compensation: organizational oriented and market oriented. As my colleague Peter Cappelli recently argued , automation technologies are profitable, in part, because they are considered an asset on a firm’s balance sheet that can be depreciated.