Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

Children have shifted on the "great balance sheet of life" — from assets in an agrarian society to liabilities in an industrial society — and people are choosing to have fewer. How should you provide additional compensation opportunities? China fell from 5.8 children per woman in 1950 to 2.3

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Manager Balance Sheet Recruitment Metrics 18

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. Variable compensation is often tied to some measure of economic value added. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap.

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Manager Balance Sheet Energy Reorganization 15

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. While benchmarks are useful inputs for compensation decisions, they shouldn’t be a straitjacket. It’s not surprising.

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Balance Sheet Benchmarking Strategic Planning Government 14

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. How It Works. Similar to other as-a-service models, LaaS allows a customer to “rent” its ceilings to a service provider.

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Balance Sheet Energy Operations Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

While most people value fair compensation for their accomplishments, few leaders start out seeking only money, power, and prestige. His denial turned balance sheet misjudgments into catastrophe for the entire financial system. They start to believe their own press. The leadership trap.

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Balance Sheet Government Banking Compensation 19

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The stock price captures not just current profits, but expected future profits, growth opportunities, balance sheet strength, corporate culture, customer satisfaction, relations with stakeholders, and so on, and weights them by their relative importance for firm value. For example, earnings restatements lead to a -9% return.

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Balance Sheet Reorganization Compensation Government 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. And they hesitate to create strong, progressive IT positions all the time. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague.

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Balance Sheet ROI Engineering Accounts 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Companies can be divided into two types , in terms of how they approach hiring and compensation: organizational oriented and market oriented. As my colleague Peter Cappelli recently argued , automation technologies are profitable, in part, because they are considered an asset on a firm’s balance sheet that can be depreciated.

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Marketing Balance Sheet Compensation Benefits 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

For its part, Nikon focused on cost optimization opportunities and balance sheet management when communicating to value-oriented investors and on long-term structural changes when communicating to growth-oriented investors. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Fixed Costs 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

These factors have led to questions over the quality of banks’ balance sheets and whether many of the loans extended in recent years can actually be repaid, raising further doubts over the sustainability of the debt-fueled model. Currently, all rural land is collectively owned by the people, with farmers leasing the right to use it.

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Balance Sheet Government Revenue Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You have a different compensation model than a lot of other galleries; how does that work, and why did you decide to shake things up? Some days are more in the trenches, looking at balance sheets. When you can show someone the inner workings of that, People light up over it. We have a very artist-friendly kind of gallery.

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Small Business Balance Sheet Travel Nonprofit 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

This is especially curious in the case of financial firms like Goldman Sachs, where shareholders contribute only a small portion of the balance sheet and lenders (and taxpayers) are in many ways truer owners.

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Balance Sheet Government Banking Compensation 8

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In a well-run, responsible company, only a tiny percentage of cash from global "profits" is used for executive compensation (an exception being some financial service companies where a high percentage of revenue goes to compensation). Working Conditions. Worker Transition at Home.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Revenue Government 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet. The speed and scale on which this is occurring helps us recognize that we are not in a cyclical downturn as corporations attempt to compensate for the disruptive impact of digital technology.

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Assets Balance Sheet Operations A/B Testing 8

Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We are linking CEO compensation with ESG markers. And you can cheat your way to profitability and you can puff the data as you want and you can puff your balance sheet. What are we getting? A huge amount of greenwashing. Chances are you want your company to be successful for the next 100 years, not for the next ten quarters.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s also untrue because the requirement for more capital is about how banks fund their balance sheets, not the size of the balance sheet. We’ve seen the [overall] amount of lending in the U.S. and other countries continue to rise as more capital is required.

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Banking Balance Sheet Compliance Assets 13