Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In general, managing energy bills has traditionally been a pretty low priority for most corporations. For all but a few process-focused companies or those with energy-intensive facilities such as data centers, the utility bill is generally filed under the list of uncontrollable, take-it-or-leave-it costs of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Enron was rated BBB+ (or the equivalent) by all three rating agencies, which typically include all off balance sheet debt when determining a rating. Enron''s court-appointed bankruptcy examiner estimated the SPEs comprised $14 billion of off-balance sheet debt. This is why the rating agencies could exclude the SPE debt.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

” Another reason you might see a very high ROA is if a company is messing with its balance sheet, explains Knight. The energy-trading company had a very high ROA. ” With ROE, you also need to remember that equity is the book value on the balance sheet. Take Enron.

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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

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. The soaring U.S.

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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 Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements. Even better. Scale-up means growth, and growth means jobs, wealth, and tax revenues.

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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

JULY 14, 2017

For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale.

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UVA Darden

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Government and private sector representatives from the energy, transportation, agriculture, industrial and building sectors worked collectively to identify the top five actions to move the needle on climate change, summarized in The Decarbonization Playbook. He said the U.S., acknowledges that agricultural reform looms large.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail). Most clean energy startups, on the other hand, need huge amounts of capital to get off the ground, and so far big payoffs have been scarce.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

No, business needs to value the Earth like it does its balance sheet. The planet provides the collective assets on the balance sheets of our global economy: that is, it’s quite literally the giver of everything required for our economy and society. operations. Those are lovely philanthropic choices.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. They aren’t just the operators; they are the environment.

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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. I was run into a example from The Economist where they said, okay, solar is driving energy costs in the afternoon to zero, if not negative in California and Germany. Bill Sherman Right.

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Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I want to make sure that my forecast is operating really well. Balance sheet, we don't, we don't do debt. So balance sheet, as far as debt isn't an issue for us, but there are times we are buying assets, we're paying for assets that are not showing up in the P & L, they're ending up on the balance sheet.

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