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

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 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). As we've found so many times before, data and software can play a critical role in making operations more efficient and sustainable.

Energy 14

Energy Balance Sheet Sales Sales 14

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

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 8

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 more likely way to change the debt-to-equity ratio is organic profitable growth.

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Balance Sheet Banking Marketing Accounts 15

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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Balance Sheet Travel Accounts Project Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

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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

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 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 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Their operating environment changes in a way they don’t recognize, or they take on a project that they believe is within their capability but isn’t. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Ivan Barnett is an artist and the director of Patina, an art gallery in Sante Fe, New Mexico, which he co-owns and operates with his wife, Allison Buchsbaum-Barnett. Those kind of specialized events help offset the decline in the normal brick and mortar high season walk-in. We'll also travel and put on events elsewhere.

Small Business 10

Small Business Balance Sheet Travel Nonprofit 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Today, many companies are exposed to intelligent device risks that could harm both their own operations as well as their customers. Nor have they set up safety and security protocols for potential Black Swan AI events. Yet few have formally quantified the size of their revenue at risk and potential liability. Insight Center.

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Insurance Balance Sheet Government Scaling 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Creating transparency into its operations is the starting point for marketing to help CFOs understand where and how value is being gained or lost, which makes budgeting discussions much more productive. 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 9

Chief Executive

MARCH 14, 2023

Damage also was contained from the ends of two other banks that have operated on the fringes of the financial industry, in cryptocurrency: Silvergate and Signature Bank. banking sector over the last couple of weeks, CFOs were digesting some lessons for their operations and their leadership that will help them going forward.

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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

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. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense for companies operating in the same space to continually compete. Example: Jolly Inc.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Revenue Reorganization 12

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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Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We also dive into how we prepay significant expenses like our Next-Level Leadership LIVE Event to free up cash flow for the new year while reducing tax liabilities. These aren’t just fun events; they’re opportunities to reflect on how our actions and attitudes shape our culture. So I want to make sure that everything is accurate.

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