Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gain accounting advantage : Buffett reports on the performance of his operating businesses by grouping them according to similar balance sheet and income statement characteristics. Buffett compares float to getting an interest-free deposit that the company can use to invest for its own benefit.

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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. Or in business terms, we're drawing down the assets on the balance sheet of the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Most boards would benefit from richer data sets that compare their company to others. It’s not surprising.

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Balance Sheet Benchmarking Strategic Planning Government 14

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. But the for-profit mutual fund industry benefits by offering high-volatility funds.". . • The largest U.S.

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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. Importantly, this advancement in controls technology allows the lighting system to be controlled, owned, and operated by a third party, shifting the investment off the building’s balance sheet.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The Benefits of Disruption. Early adopters could benefit considerably. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. Plus, it can be difficult for the average person to accumulate enough points to earn a meaningful reward.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. You can actively measure the amount of difference-making talent that you have in your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? For example, I've proposed redesigning the economy around the idea of a national balance sheet, which redefines profit and wealth to matter in human terms. Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

But before anyone writes a check, you need to calculate the return on investment (ROI) by comparing the expected benefits with the costs. Once the plant starts operating, for instance, you might need to spend an additional $2 million on inventory. Income statements almost always include an allowance for depreciation of capital assets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

More and more companies are embracing the idea that they might have a purpose that goes beyond their balance sheet, one that makes the world a better place in some way. And yet fewer than half the executives surveyed said their organization actually operates in a purpose-driven way from day to day.

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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

APRIL 14, 2016

Last year, Citi produced a powerful study of the costs and benefits of shifting the energy system toward low-carbon technologies. 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

OCTOBER 11, 2018

.” With all these success stories and such a heady reputation, one might expect to see companies trumpeting sustained revenue growth, permanent reductions in cost structures, dramatic improvements in customer satisfaction, and other benefits. There is lots of activity but little sustained benefit. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Plus, the same measures that yield such efficiency gains also offer myriad other benefits , from improved employee health and retention, to better sales and lease-up rates, to enhanced brand reputation. These are often overlooked on balance sheets but can generate significant extra value for companies. Invest in smart controls.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources. Corporate venture capital is also increasingly common, as shown by the $300 million fund established by GE, ConocoPhillips, and NRG, as well as notable activity from Total, Dow, 3M, and Procter & Gamble.

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Energy Balance Sheet Marketing Benefits 14

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. The owners of Service Merchandise and Woolworth’s have both benefitted from this line of thinking.

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Balance Sheet Real Estate Assets Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. Basecamp, Mozilla and Automattic are three well-known companies that fall under the 100-percent-distributed category.

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Balance Sheet Travel Accounts Project Management 14

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

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. What if we changed some of those incentives?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Slate's Matthew Yglesias cracked that "Amazon, as best I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers." billion in bonds the year before).

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Balance Sheet Metrics Marketing Travel 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

They would see massive profits, tons of free cash flow, and healthy balance sheets. It's a strategic and operational straight-jacket. Since they wouldn't know that the companies had set and missed growth targets, they'd declare them very successful. But not the analysts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. The benefits might come in the form of easily recognized savings on the balance sheet, but the costs may accrue over time in the more obscure form of added organizational complexity.

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Balance Sheet Organizational Change Government Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Each must be designed and operated to provide the information required accurately, quickly, and concisely. Moreover, financial institutions are highly dynamic, complex, information-rich companies that operate in highly dynamic markets. Can we trust a balance sheet? There are many communications channels.

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Balance Sheet Banking Operations Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

The previous year it had operated at a loss of $1.7 Gretchen's team had predicted that the additional operating costs would be offset by increased sales volume, but it seemed that customers weren't ordering more. They'll see what's not reflected on the balance sheet — that we're building strong relationships.".

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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. Bringing everyone into line is essential, but not necessarily easy or quick. Ask for the CFO’s help.

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Benchmarking Metrics ROI Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. There are five steps to incorporating these network effects into your business (which we call PIVOT ): Purpose : Define the shared objective that everyone in your community or ecosystem will contribute to and benefit from.

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Assets Software Balance Sheet Human Resources 8

Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Instead, they operate from a values-driven leadership model rooted in purpose, long-term thinking, and a commitment to societal impact. And you can cheat your way to profitability and you can puff the data as you want and you can puff your balance sheet. Bill Sherman Right. Rajeev Peshawaria No, you can’t.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

can benefit consumers and the economy with lower cost (although foreign operations often sell in foreign markets). .; Because a presence can strengthen that market's economy and thus increase U.S. exports over time; Because any products imported back to the U.S. Use of Revenues and Margins. Worker Transition at Home.

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