Peter Winick

DECEMBER 18, 2023

An interview with Ward Kampf about vision, strategy, and execution for taking ideas to scale. So I’m looking forward to this conversation about how do you spot ideas, how do you identify which ones have potential and then help them to scale. And then obviously the asset we’re looking at is kind of the context.

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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. These time frames are not theoretical for long-term asset owners.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

The banks have retreated from that business — pursuing economies of scale, rather than helping scale up small companies. It's easier to meet Community Reinvestment Act targets with housing and real estate than with business loans. Small business lending peaked in 2008.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Revenue Banking Scaling 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Digital platforms, such as online communication channels or marketplaces, allow for rapid and inexpensive scaling, among other advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Meanwhile, trustees control universities’ sometimes-giant endowments, and most often delegate this control to asset managers who treat the endowments as pools of money with the sole purpose of creating more money. The trustee committees and endowment managers are fine with making investment decisions about any old asset.

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Real Estate Education Assets Administration 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Airbnb is an example of a win-win quality improvement: landlords realize more cash flow from their assets, and customers gain both better choice and lower costs in their travel lodging options. They should also encourage sources of repayment for such investments beyond just user fees. Examples and characteristics: Such cities are very rare.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The greater economic profit and loss at both ends of the distribution is driven by greater scale and invested capital, not by increasing returns to capital. Superstar firms and sectors also create strong wealth effects for investors, asset managers, and home owners, and these wealth effects are also concentrated among superstar cities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Today, Sunil Suri offers a way to scale Class-A housing in densely populated areas. Cost compression comes from: sheer scale of the number of units being produced (the US just does not have the population density, whereas India, China, Mexico, Brazil, do). building first in a factory, which is highly automated.

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Transportation Real Estate Energy Scaling 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Companies have other valuable assets to offer, particularly the skills and knowledge of their people. Follow the Scaling Social Impact insight center on Twitter @ScalingSocial and register to stay informed and give us feedback. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group. Want to Change the World?

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Nonprofit Real Estate Human Resources Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

As cities compete for Amazon’s second headquarters, many flexed their tax incentive packages and real estate options in hopes of luring the tech giant to select their city. Franz Aberham/Getty Images. It’s tempting to think the right financial perks is all it takes for a company to successfully expand to a new city.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The remaining was invested in business, stocks, real estate, jewelry, or “benami” assets, which are bought in someone else’s name. In other words, it was an inclusive solution , and, if the service continues to improve, it stands a chance of scaling up to India’s large market.

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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 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The answer is not to just polish up branding and marketing materials and wait for the next Amazon-scale business attraction opportunity. Rather, cities need to look closely at the criteria in Amazon’s RFP and ask whether they’ve done enough to build up the fundamental assets prized by innovative firms and industries.

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Zenefits

JULY 27, 2022

As your small business continues to scale, cash flow transparency and accounting efficiency become harder to maintain. It may depend on highly manual processes, making accounting tasks impossible to scale with demand. Not every business needs a full-scale ERP — for small and new medium-sized businesses, bookkeeping software will do.

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Accounts Accounts Payable Cash Flow Software 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Distributed energy systems are basically comprised of small-scale energy-generating devices (the most common example being solar panels) that allow for electricity to be produced on-site and consumed immediately, without drawing from the local electrical grid.

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Energy Transportation Real Estate Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

At the very basic level, protecting assets will also mean that operational leaders will move more equipment to the second floor of buildings (which one of my consumer products manufacturing clients has done in numerous locations). Real estate or hospitality companies with major coastal assets may want a Sea Level Rise Officer.

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Real Estate Operations Assets Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

And recently, the head of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, called on all companies to explain how their businesses make “a positive contribution to society” beyond just financial performance. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

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AIHR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For instance, a real estate agent would earn a percentage of each home sale, or a salesperson would receive a commission for each product sold. Examples include an external management consultant who advises companies on improving efficiency or a cybersecurity consultant who helps organizations protect their digital assets.

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Chief Executive

AUGUST 15, 2022

On a larger scale, the United States shielded the Afghan government from the consequences of its actions. Capital flight out of Afghanistan clocked into the billions per year as warlords and officials purchased real estate in Dubai and funneled their assets into foreign investments to hedge against collapse.

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