Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Or in business terms, we're drawing down the assets on the balance sheet of the world. As usual with sustainability strategy, companies must strike a tough balance between pursuing competitive advantage and the kind of open-source partnership needed the tackle global-scale issues.

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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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Assets Balance Sheet Real Estate Energy 14

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. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Fourth, companies need technologies to deliver at scale and low cost.

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Balance Sheet Assets Scaling Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Our current financial accounting model cannot capture the principle value creator for digital companies: increasing return to scale on intangible investments. This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Both small startups and large-scale technology companies are eyeing the possibilities this presents, and some are teaming up. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. Blockchain-based loyalty platforms could be another such disruption. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Insolvency is usually a balance sheet concept based around the valuation of assets. When the value of your assets is less than the value of your liabilities, you are insolvent. Technically almost every country would be insolvent if if was asked to pay all of its debt using its available assets.

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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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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.

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Banking Assets Government Balance Sheet 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met him again two months ago: six years later he had scaled up by a factor of ten — all the result of organic growth — and employs over 6000 people. Scale-up means growth, and growth means jobs, wealth, and tax revenues. Unjam the exit if you really want to improve entrance and scale-up. Even better.

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Balance Sheet Government Scaling Cash Flow 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

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. According to Dealogic, banks have divested more than $2 trillion in assets since 2007. Their share of total foreign investment assets has risen from 8% to 14% over the past ten years.

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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 But the scales have now tipped in favor of accelerating growth. times global GDP).

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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

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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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’s economies of scale at Vanguard and Amazon.

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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. Digital processes, applied to the same old tactics, simply exacerbate the same old problems.

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