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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Balance Sheet Manager Assets Software 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Increasingly, consumers on the floor know more than the sales staff about the store's products and price points — and competing offers. Doing this right will allow the CFO to keep the store as an asset on the balance sheet, not a liability — a move shareholders would surely reward.

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet eCommerce Media Assets 15

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.

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Balance Sheet Assets Operations Energy 10

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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ROI Cash Flow Revenue Balance Sheet 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Zooming in on the sales challenge helps to highlight the difficulty of business model innovation. Think about the highly successful model newspapers historically followed: Journalists would develop unique content to attract wide swaths of readers, and sales reps would sell advertising to people hoping to reach those readers.

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Media Advertising Balance Sheet Cash Flow 13

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. 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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Balance Sheet Energy Operations Assets 13

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.

Banking 8

Banking Balance Sheet Assets Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

The company later announced loss in sales, but this has been tied more to a pattern of low profits in the last few years since the company’s merging with Kmart, than to the October data breach. The Sears stock price steadily rose during the month after the announcement. In the beginning of October, 2014, the largest U.S.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

The US economy is in cyclical full-steam-ahead mode, but it’s mainly benefitting the owners of financial assets – wage growth is missing. Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending. We need new policies. This policy is also fairer.

Banking 12

Banking Assets Government Balance Sheet 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Using analytics, organizations have deployed bigger data sets, cheaper cloud computing power, and more aggressive algorithms to successfully standardize previously non-standard processes such as sales and service, making them more repeatable, predictable, and amenable to analytics.

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Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

For us, growth events mean simply concrete, directly observable achievements that foreshadow future success: for example, new customer contracts, initial export sales, new bank or equity financings, expanded production capacity, or expanded people platforms (e.g. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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Scaling Banking Balance Sheet Sales 13

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. The third is the tax system.

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Balance Sheet Government Revenue Sales 8

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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Balance Sheet Government Scaling Cash Flow 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Using analytics, organizations have deployed bigger data sets, cheaper cloud computing power, and more aggressive algorithms to successfully standardize previously non-standard processes such as sales and service, making them more repeatable, predictable, and amenable to analytics.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Diversity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It’s the CMO’s job to make sure that metrics reflecting the health and value of the customer base –net present value, lifetime value, return on loyalty, cost per acquisition – get on the balance sheet. Financial metrics would typically include obvious numbers such as sales, return on investment, and cost per customer.

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Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

With refrains of “unlock hidden value” and “increase shareholder value,” and powered by over $120 billion in assets , activist investors like Trian look for companies like GE (or Procter & Gamble) whose share price is underperforming relative to its peers (or that have large amounts of cash on their balance sheets).

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Balance Sheet Revenue Assets Digital Transformation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet. But it only makes the ROA problem worse: companies end up burdened with more unspent cash and a bigger block of dead, unproductive assets. A digital company will A/B test its web page, display ad, or online catalogue in real time.

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Assets Balance Sheet Operations A/B Testing 8

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. You know, here's brand new sales, here's monthly recurring revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

The beauty of M&A for examining valuation trends is that M&As reveal the dollar valuations of all assets at the time of the acquisition. Upon acquiring a business, companies have to value the different assets they acquired for their accounts and balance sheet in accordance with accounting and reporting standards.

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Balance Sheet Assets Marketing Accounts 15