Assets Balance Sheet Energy 
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2016
Let’s start with return on assets. What is Return on Assets (ROA)? ” You’re taking everything you own in the business — any assets like cash, facilities, machinery, equipment, vehicles, inventory, etc. “ROA simply shows how effective your company is at using those assets to generate profit.”
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 14, 2016
But this new report, by estimating the risk to all financial assets and portfolios, finds a powerful middle ground that should get investor attention. Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies. And thus those companies are massively overvalued.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. Or in business terms, we're drawing down the assets on the balance sheet of the world.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2013
The company also had three divisions — Water, International, and Merchant Investment — that were saddled with underperforming and over-valued assets. Enron was rated BBB+ (or the equivalent) by all three rating agencies, which typically include all off balance sheet debt when determining a rating.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 27, 2017
Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. Hence the opportunity for third-party service providers.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 1, 2018
In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 1, 2017
Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP).
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