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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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

JUNE 27, 2017

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. This approach fully aligns the benefits and risks of the upgrade with the roles and preferences of each party. How It Works.

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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

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

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

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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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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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. Yes, no doubt many countries would benefit from better infrastructure, and the current low cost of borrowing for governments suggests that it would be a good time to make such investments.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

There are obvious benefits to both companies: Zipcar gets capital and more footprint; Avis gets expansion into a rapidly growing and youth-oriented market. Community is an intangible quality that is hard to capture on a standard balance sheet, so it often gets ignored by companies that lack it in their DNA.

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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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Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Four Pillars of Steward Leadership: The Steward Leadership model is built on four principles: independence (the belief that helping society benefits business), long-term thinking (beyond quarterly gains), ownership of challenges (profit while solving problems), and creative resilience (innovating to address global issues).

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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). The cash from high revenues and margins is also often used to enhance the corporation: for improving its operations, productivity, technology and products, or for increasing reach and scale efficiencies through acquisitions.

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