Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Not surprising, managers at every level are struggling to adapt to this new dynamic, balancing both employee satisfaction and corporate productivity. From managing people and processes to enabling success. 90% of the value in most organizations is generated from intangible capital : your people.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

I talked with Joe Knight, author of the HBR TOOLS: Return on Investment and co-founder and owner of www.business-literacy.com , to learn more about these ratios and how managers can use them. Let’s start with return on assets. What is Return on Assets (ROA)? A service business may have expensive computer and IT systems.

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Assets Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. The Challenge of Investing in Digital Assets. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Fastow's message, an important one for all managers and potential managers, has two key points. First, the rules provide managers with discretion to be misleading. The problem is that attorneys, accountants, managers, boards, and bankers are not gatekeepers; rather, they are there to help businesses execute deals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

Yet many of our talent management practices today are derived from this old idea. 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. China fell from 5.8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. Managers understand that clear-eyed analysis — both quantitative and qualitative — is the key to building a resilient business. Most frequently, these high-return assets come from our lives outside of the office.

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Manager Balance Sheet Assets Banking 14

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

AUGUST 5, 2014

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets. In fact, many VCs don’t even invest in their fund from their personal assets, instead contributing their investment via their share of the management fees. Well, it depends.

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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. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

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Balance Sheet Assets Strategic Planning Operations 18

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 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

You take your company’s total liabilities (what it owes others) and divide it by equity (this is the company’s book value or its assets minus its liabilities). Both of these numbers come from your company’s balance sheet. So you want to strike a balance that’s appropriate for your industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2011

From falsified mortgage applications and bundles of toxic mortgages, to incorrect credit ratings and balance sheets that couldn't be trusted, the financial crisis is as much about bad data as it is about unfettered greed. Almost everyone readily acknowledges that "data are among our most important assets." to manage quality.

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Balance Sheet Assets Implementation Government 15

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.

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Balance Sheet Assets Cash Flow Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Analyzing ROI isn’t always as simple as it sounds and there’s one mistake that many managers make: confusing cash and profit. Income statements almost always include an allowance for depreciation of capital assets. Financial analysis Project management'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The current ratio measures a firm’s ability to pay off its short-term liabilities with its current assets. So your current assets are things that you could convert into cash within the year. Managers may not be monitoring the current or quick ratio every day but they can have a great impact on it.

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Accounts Payable Assets Balance Sheet Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

It stems from the cold, brutal reality that most managers simply do not use data they don't trust: "These numbers don't look right. In principle, one could measure the associated costs, but they pale in comparison to the costs of trying to manage when you don't know what's going on. Mere managers find all of this daunting indeed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Indeed, The Economist proclaimed that data are now “the world’s most valuable asset.” Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. ” Some even refer to data as “exhaust” — the antithesis of a valued asset! Start with talent.

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Balance Sheet Assets Scaling Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

It requires data, debate about what to measure and how, and dissemination to engage a broad range of policy makers, academics, and practitioners to manage these newly measured sources of satisfaction. despite hiring some noted academics to mortarboard-wash our conclusions with statistics and citations.

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Balance Sheet Benchmarking Advertising Assets 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Third-party ownership models, which separate the ownership of an asset from the service it provides, have transformed other industries for the better. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. number of copies each month). How It Works.

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Balance Sheet Energy Operations Assets 13

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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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Franklin kept a “balance sheet” of both the assets and liabilities of his personal traits. The keys to effective formal feedback is to a) have a process, and b) have an effective manager of it. The latter either requires really good internal HR people, or bringing in outside facilitators and consultants.

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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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Banking Balance Sheet Assets Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

It is natural and appropriate to seek to leverage existing assets and capabilities. Develop an honest capabilities balance sheet, highlighting both strengths and weaknesses, and compare it to your blueprinted business models. Some assets, like a brand, might make sense to use across A and B.

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Media Advertising Balance Sheet Cash Flow 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

But while such information exchanges have become technically feasible, they are not yet financially beneficial to the information provider and difficult for the customer to value and incorporate into their management systems. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

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Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger.

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Balance Sheet Government Scaling Cash Flow 10

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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Cash Flow Balance Sheet Energy Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

But while such information exchanges have become technically feasible, they are not yet financially beneficial to the information provider and difficult for the customer to value and incorporate into their management systems. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

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Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I can’t imagine, recalling my days at Rio Tinto, the managers of a copper mine measuring and proudly reporting how much dirt was moved, how deep the hole was, and how many trucks they had procured – while staying mum about how much copper was produced. To a business person, think how absurd this would seem.

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Balance Sheet Nonprofit Retention Recruitment 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Failure to present a groundbreaking new vision risks leaving in place old economic drivers, especially the over-reliance on fixed-asset investment, that have created serious challenges such as China’s “ghost cities” and high levels of local government debt. Which Management Style Will China Adopt? China’s Next Great Transition.

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Balance Sheet Government Revenue Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. What if we changed some of those incentives? Could we treat workforce training and other investments in employee skill and well-being similarly?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Each plan should also contribute to better managed firms, with stronger market discipline, risk management practices and less stability-threatening imprudence. The bail-in idea is attractive because it applies losses up front (based on a valuation) rather than at the end, when assets are sold off.

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. M is Mass, in this case all the things, people, and assets of your ecosystem. By adding connections and co-creation, we multiply the ability of these assets to create value. Human capital. Intellectual capital.

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Assets Software Balance Sheet Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

We believe that it is not the age of the asset that is important, but rather, the value infused into that asset that drives scale. We taught lending officers how to talk to businesses that were afraid that taking debt onto their balance sheets was riskier than maintaining a flat-growth business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These funds were used to fill the balance sheet hole caused by the prior derivative losses. So, in a huge fraud, they spent $1.7B on virtually worthless acquisitions and paid themselves grotesque "deal fees" through phony advisors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy. Then it wasn’t.

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