Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

With more than a trillion dollars on the collective balance sheet, U.S. And some do get the value of shopping for talent now: Engine maker Cummins Inc., jobs in 2011, many requiring engineering or other technical skills. Oilfield-services leader Schlumberger invests heavily to obtain a steady flow of engineering talent.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Just over the past year or so, we've seen formerly "best in class" companies like Goldman Sachs , Toyota , BP , and Johnson & Johnson take huge hits to their reputations (and balance sheets) in ways that no one could have predicted. This kind of thinking (and worrying) has the potential to let managers off the hook.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This typically means they look to re-engineer the balance sheet to increase shareholder yield, over the shortest amount of time possible, which typically ranges between six to twelve months. With two separate balance sheets, management could plan around the risk variables (i.e. Example: Jolly Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. But that doesn’t square with reality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Or is one more a pawn in a rigged game of self-destruction; a mark in a ponzi scheme; a dull-eyed pack animal to which the engines of extraction are yoked? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Platforms of engagement, based on human experiences, are the new loci of value creation and therefore the new engines of capitalism. billion were within the balance sheet, rising 7% versus the average of 0.5% It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain. 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 17, 2015

” When you force your employees to use slow or inconvenient technology, the costs don’t show up on your balance sheet immediately. As David Fullerton, VP of Engineering at StackExchange, writes , “There’s no halfsies in a distributed team. But they’re there all the same.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Here, I include both basic storage, processing, and communications technologies, as well as the more sophisticated architectures, analysis tools, and cognitive technologies that are the engines of monetization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Add to this the stress of the public balance sheet expanding as the private sector deleveraged after the 2008 crash, and you end up with a debt panic that Congress was all too keen to make political hay out of — despite being the main engineers of the debt that offends them so much.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. Herrenknecht started his business 40 years ago as a one-person engineering company. They belong to a class of small-to-medium German enterprises that are outperforming the country’s top public companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Pundits had proclaimed that the newspaper industry was a shuffling dinosaur as the commercial Internet took off in the late 1990s, yet most companies still had healthy financial statements and stable balance sheets. In 1999, Kodak’s photography business peaked at $10.3 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Klara Eberhart, the head of engineering, interrupted. She proposed hiring 15 to 20 new engineers. Klara and Rutger, of course, think we should be an execution-focused company that hires the best and brightest engineers. What happens to the balance sheet if we bring in paid developers?” Everyone’s got an opinion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

Experience has taught me that the art of good M&A requires a combination of careful research, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail that might otherwise get overlooked; due diligence requires more than a scan through boxes of contracts and reviewing the balance sheet.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

What we are not seeing, however, are many signs of truly ambitious growth strategies which could result in companies putting newly restored balance sheets to work. companies in the study generally view digital technologies as a way to streamline existing operations and improve customer relationships — not as an engine for growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. After three years the company wrote off three times the acquisition cost. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

3) Update management and leadership practices: An extended analytics engine fueled by multiple information sources, however, can accomplish little without the ability to act on future predictions. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

.” GreenBiz founder Joel Makower defines a stranded asset as “a financial term that describes something that has become obsolete or nonperforming well ahead of its useful life, and must be recorded on a company’s balance sheet as a loss of profit.” So-called “sunny day flooding”, (i.e

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Organization kicked off a major Reliability Engineering program, much like the efficiency initiatives of companies such as Toyota. In many companies, these types of data assets are currently assigned rough valuations and classified as “intangible” or “goodwill” on the balance sheet.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control. 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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Even with about $700 billion in capital available in the United States and hundreds of billions of dollars more around the globe, property and casualty insurers’ balance sheets are too small to cover all the potential losses from a global intelligent device disaster.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

an engine manufacturer, began building an engine for long-haul trucks optimized to run on natural gas. It shifted debt from the private side of the country’s balance sheet to the public side. The same amount of natural gas cost about $14 in Europe, $15 in China, and about $16 in Japan. Indeed, it could even turn positive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

3) Update management and leadership practices: An extended analytics engine fueled by multiple information sources, however, can accomplish little without the ability to act on future predictions. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Consider how Nest is networking its thermostats, smoke alarms, and cameras to create home security solutions, or how Caterpillar and GE are each networking their equipment and engines to save millions in maintenance costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. Or they can develop conventional reservoirs where it will require long-term investments in new technologies to bring the cycle times and costs more in line with those of nimble shale producers.

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Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Despite stiff economic headwinds, robust M&A opportunities are there for the taking, with many companies enjoying steady cash flows and strong balance sheets. “In In today’s high-inflation environment, strategic acquirers with lots of cash on the balance sheet need to do something with it,” says Christopher R.

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Recognizing its potential during a Mastermind session, she and her team developed a groundbreaking AI tool to simplify and analyze messy small business balance sheets. The format for PNL balance sheet has not changed. Ruth King Well, I’m a chemical engineer by training. So, I mean, that is timeless.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Its powerful search engine serves as a platform that instantaneously brings others’ content to users. Develop an honest capabilities balance sheet, highlighting both strengths and weaknesses, and compare it to your blueprinted business models. Google, for example, doesn’t produce any original content.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. 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.

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