Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Companies must care for workers as complete “assets”, caring for workers’ health, wellness, mental health, and longevity as they would care for any tangible asset in the corporate balance sheet. McGowan/Shipley : Every job comes with tradeoffs and those events where organizational needs take priority over employees’ needs.

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Balance Sheet Assets Employee Engagement Recruitment 52

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And at that point, we had just gone through the events of September 11. And that’s one thing that we’re hoping that this book does is puts idea flow on the balance sheet or on the measurement dashboard of every leader. Sometimes we’re hosting events that meet. So ran a bunch of different divisions.

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Metrics Scaling Marketing Sales 130

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Even at top-tier schools, first-year students spend fewer hours in class than in the past, as field trips, student consulting projects, international excursions, CEO visits, club events, and more crowd the calendar. And teaching methods have changed.

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Balance Sheet Education Recruitment Government 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

To get some empirical traction, we defined luck as events that to a large extent are outside of your control, unpredictable, and that can impact you significantly (good or bad). We analyzed the history of luck events for the companies in our study set. View life as a flow of luck events. Spot good-luck events when they come.

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Manager Balance Sheet Operations Marketing 15

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. . • The largest U.S. Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance.

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Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Managing complexity has always been part of the leader's job — be it sorting out the variables involved in strategic decisions , orchestrating the interaction of different functions , or responding to unanticipated events. But today, coping with complexity is an even bigger part of the manager's responsibilities.

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Balance Sheet Operations Engineering Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Balance Sheet Assets Insurance Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

These two major demographic shifts are so significant that Peter Drucker predicted that historians, looking back at the 20th Century, will view the demographic changes as the most important events of the century (more so than technology, industrialization, globalization and so on). The first is substantially lower birth or fertility rates.

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Manager Balance Sheet Recruitment Metrics 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The company does deep data mining through multiple sources to spot signature events in customers’ lives. Those events trigger USAA to contact the customer at just the right time, with just the right offer, such as auto insurance when a customer’s daughter is about to turn 16. Take a balance-sheet view.

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Balance Sheet Insurance Telecommunications Banking 13

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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Balance Sheet Assets Cash Flow Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

This week we had the opportunity to speak with Ashley Lenihan, Jiehae Choi, and Nathan Gamester of the Legatum Institute , in town for an event at MIT. And, for that matter, by investors: Legatum's data showed a portrait of Egypt a year ago that could have helped predict recent events.). We saw it in action during the MIT talk.

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Balance Sheet Benchmarking Advertising Assets 17

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. Allow for Greater Responsiveness to Future Events.

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Balance Sheet Insurance Banking Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. Instead, individuals must use what I call a “positivity currency” approach that is grounded in actual positive interactions, events, and memories — the things known to boost resilience.

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Manager Balance Sheet Assets Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). The giants in the field, such as P&G and Unilever, spend a lot of money on demand planning, each employing hundreds of people, many with advanced math degrees.and for good reason: P&G's 2010 total inventory, for example, was valued on the balance sheet at $6.4

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Energy Balance Sheet Sales Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

But in a market spooked by default and a new appreciation of political risk based on events in AP, Bangladesh, and Nicaragua, that seems unlikely even for the few MFIs in a position to take equity investment. The easiest way to change the debt-to-equity ratio is to raise more equity via investors.

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Balance Sheet Banking Marketing Accounts 15

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. You can involve remote employees in company events — small or big — and share the company’s future vision with them. But they’re there all the same.

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Balance Sheet Travel Accounts Project Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

His denial turned balance sheet misjudgments into catastrophe for the entire financial system. Still others find relief through laughter, music, television, sporting events, and reading. During the financial crisis, Lehman CEO Richard Fuld refused to recognize that Lehman was undercapitalized.

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Balance Sheet Government Banking Compensation 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Insurance policies and lottery tickets have the same payoff properties, with the one claimed on bad news or undesirable events and the other claimed by very happy lottery winners. They both rely on odds — and accrue massive amounts of hopes, aspirations, risks, and, naturally, money. Flood insurance is another example.

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Insurance Balance Sheet Assets Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Second, major capital events such as renovations or retrofits, which companies typically undertake every few decades, provide the opportunity for even deeper savings given recent advancements in green construction. These are often overlooked on balance sheets but can generate significant extra value for companies.

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Manager Energy Balance Sheet Accounts 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

The key is focusing on small-but-significant growth events and showing that they can occur within months. To rapidly facilitate new growth events over several years, we have developed a six-month, 120-hour “Scalerator” that consists of monthly 1.5-day, strategic hires). strategic hires).

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Scaling Banking Balance Sheet Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

For instance, current SEC regulation leaves leeway for public companies as to when to disclose cyber incidents: “To the extent a cyber incident is discovered after the balance sheet date but before the issuance of financial statements, registrants should consider whether disclosure of a recognized or nonrecognized subsequent event is necessary” (..)

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Those kind of specialized events help offset the decline in the normal brick and mortar high season walk-in. In 2012, we've had half a dozen of those events, and they're an economic feed for what isn't happening organically through the door. We'll also travel and put on events elsewhere. I do, I do.

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Small Business Balance Sheet Travel Nonprofit 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. This appears to explain events at the industrial company. The CEO managed the acquiree the same way that he managed the existing business, instead of adopting a style that recognized the emergent nature of innovation. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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Government Balance Sheet Performance Review Manager 14

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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Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Nor have they set up safety and security protocols for potential Black Swan AI events. Today, some leading insurers are suggesting security procedures that companies could follow to attend to information breaches and interruptions in the event of a global failure of interconnected systems. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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Insurance Balance Sheet Government Scaling 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Banks are concerned that these provisions will make it harder to raise large amounts of debt in bond markets at a time when they desperately need extra capital to comply with new regulations and replenish their damaged balance sheets as they deal with impairments and write-down certain sovereign exposures.

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

We're a heck of a lot better at this event than we were here over the last three or four years, and that's probably because there's no one catastrophic or imminent issue that's on the table. The lack of M&A activity was surprising, especially when you look at the cash on the balance sheets.

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Insurance Balance Sheet Retention Revenue 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These funds were used to fill the balance sheet hole caused by the prior derivative losses. It was a major event, with significant impact. So, in a huge fraud, they spent $1.7B on virtually worthless acquisitions and paid themselves grotesque "deal fees" through phony advisors.

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Balance Sheet Government Accounts Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As firms might differ in number of employees they downsized, we controlled for the percentage of employees reduced in each downsizing event. Accordingly, we examined intangible resources (captured through Tobin’s q, a measure of the value of the firm not captured by its balance sheets), financial resources, and physical resources.

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Balance Sheet Sales Sales Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It’s the CMO’s job to make sure that metrics reflecting the health and value of the customer base –net present value, lifetime value, return on loyalty, cost per acquisition – get on the balance sheet. Why is this so challenging? One reason is that different regions often allocate the same spend to different categories.

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Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Tech bloggers had jumped all over the story; many speculated that SimplePay had begun to slow its hiring and scrimp on security investments in an effort to spiff up its balance sheet for a potential IPO. Some of that was true. Someone’s got to go.” ” Take One For the Team? Jake typed the letter out on his phone.

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Balance Sheet Media Sales Sales 10

Chief Executive

MARCH 14, 2023

Big banks may have fortress balance sheets, but you don’t really know what’s on them,” Holland noted. There are opportunities for regional folks and other banks outside money-center banks.” • In any event, diversify. They’re complex. And you’re not going to be able to have a conversation with the CEO about your accounts.

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Accounts 98

Chief Executive

JULY 25, 2022

The second thing that we also saw in our companies is that in an uncertain world, there’s this very weird paradox of, on the one hand, placing really big bets, and, on the other, protecting your flanks against downside events, and putting both of those together. What they are is enormously resilient by design.

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Balance Sheet Assets Engineering Operations 98

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

The role of the Olympic Games leaders is to build, sell, and safely deliver the event. While this has meant fewer economies of scale from the big players, it has also ensured that no one supplier over-stresses its balance sheet, under-delivers, and causes cost over-runs. The brief has been challenging since the start.

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Balance Sheet Banking Revenue Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Based on my work studying activist strategies, I’ve outlined four hypothetical scenarios below (based on actual events) that demonstrate the different strategies an activist could pursue. The capital requirements of the two businesses were so different that the balance sheet could never be structured in a manner that best suited both.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Revenue Reorganization 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Whether due to ethical concerns, to sound policy or to good politics, American multinational companies would be wise to use their balance sheets, when possible, to provide decent severance, job training and outplacement services to workers displaced in the U.S. Worker Transition at Home.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Revenue Government 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." And even if there were, it would have to be expressed as a probability statement: How likely is Apple to innovate or out-innovate its peers? Moreover, targeted questions can reveal different types of collaboration.

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Assets Balance Sheet Reorganization Organizational Change 17