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
APRIL 22, 2014
No, business needs to value the Earth like it does its balance sheet. The planet provides the collective assets on the balance sheets of our global economy: that is, it’s quite literally the giver of everything required for our economy and society. Finally, ask some heretical questions.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
Lesson number one is about the importance of endurance and physical stamina, and the ability to keep one's self and one's energy at a high, healthy level on a very consistent basis. I think it's really about energy and enthusiasm and a kind of physical, moral, intellectual, and emotional verve — an appetite.
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