Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

The Challenge of Investing in Digital Assets. That fact becomes apparent when you juxtapose the balance sheet of a company like Microsoft with the balance sheet of a company like Siemens. Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

This odd couple announced a collaboration last week to "work together to apply scientific knowledge and experience to examine how Dow's operations rely on and affect nature.". Or in business terms, we're drawing down the assets on the balance sheet of the world. Either we manage these resources well, or we don't survive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Creating this new intelligent store requires, at the very least, the CIO, the chief marketing officer, the SVP of store operations and the SVP of e-commerce to determine how to best engage with increasingly digital-savvy, data-driven shoppers. Steven Skinner, is Vice President, Retail Practice, Cognizant Business Consulting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Income statements almost always include an allowance for depreciation of capital assets. That statement records cash generated by a company’s operations and cash spent on those operations; cash spent on capital assets (and cash generated by the sale of capital assets); and cash received from, or paid to, lenders and shareholders.

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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. These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless. And thus those companies are massively overvalued.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Working to find and fix errors is part and parcel of most operational processes, and once they turn a harsh eye on non-value-added work, most leaders can root it out. While in everyday language, it is plain enough that poor-quality data are liabilities and high-quality data are assets, they don't appear on the balance sheet.

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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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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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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

JUNE 27, 2017

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. Third-party ownership models, which separate the ownership of an asset from the service it provides, have transformed other industries for the better. number of copies each month). How It Works.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. A robust, frictionless partner network could mean many more redemption options outside of the core travel product, thereby creating a much-needed release valve for these growing balance-sheet pressures.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers). In these cases, the insurers’ right to subrogate, or go after the assets of others to recoup their losses, is largely unenforceable.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. homes have broadband , and network operators continue to invest in ever-faster cable, satellite, and fiber-based technologies. In doing so, they systematically undervalue their own intangible assets. The Blockbuster-Netflix skirmish is a case in point. postal service.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

It is natural and appropriate to seek to leverage existing assets and capabilities. Our experience dealing with disruption across a range of industries suggests four recommendations to leaders: Don’t choose between using digital technologies as a way to improve existing operations or using digital as a platform for new growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2014

And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins. A key challenge in quantifying the value of IoT is in valuing the data assets it creates. This method is not perfect, but it is a good start.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations. For instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements. Even better. Scale-up means growth, and growth means jobs, wealth, and tax revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Three lines of progress are crossing, and rapidly reshaping how businesses and nonprofits together strengthen the locales in which they operate. Child sponsorships have been operating since 1953, and all of them share the high-level objective of breaking the cycle of poverty. This is what is going on now in community development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

M is Mass, in this case all the things, people, and assets of your ecosystem. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Intellectual capital.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Creating transparency into its operations is the starting point for marketing to help CFOs understand where and how value is being gained or lost, which makes budgeting discussions much more productive. As a long-term asset of significant value, the brand should be part of those calculations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. Comstock is out.

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Chief Executive

JULY 25, 2022

We went back and ran an analysis on the cash-to-assets ratio of companies that did really well in these kinds of environments, even when they were small. We found that the discipline to have a very high cash-to-assets ratio showed up early in their history. It wasn’t a luxury of their success. It preceded their success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It is derived by adjusting for changes in gross margin, capital intensity (fixed assets as a proportion of total assets), and positively for sales surprise (the degree to which actual sales exceeds or falls short of forecast). Consider the following example that Vishal Gaur of Cornell, my frequent co-author, shared with me.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet shows that, since 2008, "deposits by depository institutions" (i.e. After a bit of head scratching the Fed decided to try something else — the "twist" — where they bought short-term assets in exchange for long-term securities to try and lower long-term rates.

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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. operations. So today let’s not call it Earth Day.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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Balance Sheet Real Estate Assets Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. It bills itself as a way of connecting drivers and passengers.

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Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Acquisitions: Physical and Human Resources (00:31:00) Why understanding your business needs versus wants is crucial when evaluating new hires or assets. In this section, we discuss the decision-making process behind acquiring new assets or hiring key personnel. I want to make sure that my forecast is operating really well.

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