Chief Executive

JANUARY 3, 2023

Once again, this is especially critical for crypto, as the very concept cryptocurrencies and blockchain are based on is one of self-governance, trust, transparency and immutability. .” Without it, leaders risk losing the trust of their employees, investors, stakeholders and customers.

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Peter Winick

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Not many companies fail during COVID because the government’s propped up so many companies. But it took guts and courage to acquire something that CNN, a company, you know, 100,000 times your size, was ultimately pulling the plug on and throwing in the trash and saying, get this off my balance sheet.

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Travel Sales Sales Media 173

LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

It is not just the purview of finance to interpret the numbers that govern profit and loss; it behooves every employee to understand how and why the company makes money, spends money, and measures financial performance. Study the Balance Sheet. With term definitions in hand, analyze your company’s balance sheet.

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Zenefits

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Consumers and sellers will have to wait and see what actions the Federal Reserve, governments, and other market overseers will take to normalize the economy. Inventory surpluses (along with shortages) are leaving businesses with too many products on their balance sheets. A short and mild recession that the U.S.

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Balance Sheet Small Business Energy Onboarding 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. Both governments have now injected billions into these ailing banks, to the detriment of their respective debt profiles. How things change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It's great to see students get their shoes dusty with real-world forays, but I fear they are losing the ability to read a balance sheet or parse the kind of complex data they'd get in case-study coursework. And teaching methods have changed. Accreditation bodies should set standards for teachers' prior work experience.

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Balance Sheet Education Recruitment Government 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Insolvency is usually a balance sheet concept based around the valuation of assets. All governments in practice secure their national debts on their abilities to levy taxes. With the passing of the monarchical governance structure, responsibility for a nation's debt moved from the rulers to the ruled.

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Balance Sheet Banking Assets Government 19

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. This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g.

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Balance Sheet Benchmarking Strategic Planning Government 14

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

JUNE 29, 2012

To the long, dismal list of fatally broken institutions — GDP, governments, schools, corporations — we can add the mysterious Libor , and its conveniently comfortable calculation. Which compact governs the relations between the powerless and the privileged? Who authors the destiny of nations? Whose rights are sacrosanct?

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Balance Sheet Government Banking Human Resources 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Debt, growth, inflexibility, and profligate periphery governments all vie for attention, with the latter being the most popular explanation. You can push Greece to cut public expenditure down to Neolithic levels and it will not do much at all for Société Générale's balance sheet. It's a pity it is wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

The Securities and Exchange Commission began using the ratings issued by what they called Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (and yes, they actually do use the acronym NRSRO) to judge whether securities firms' balance sheets were solid enough.

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Balance Sheet Government Advertising Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Problem-finding boards understand the three drivers of ungoverned incompetence — a collapse of competence, shortcomings in self-governance, and inadequate corporate governance — and why they can be so hard to detect. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. Collapse of Competence.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2011

government debt on Friday. From falsified mortgage applications and bundles of toxic mortgages, to incorrect credit ratings and balance sheets that couldn't be trusted, the financial crisis is as much about bad data as it is about unfettered greed. At this point, most everyone has heard that S&P downgraded U.S.

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Balance Sheet Assets Implementation Government 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Many times, this desire is so strong that leaders breach the ethical standards that previously governed their conduct, which can be bizarre and even illegal. His denial turned balance sheet misjudgments into catastrophe for the entire financial system. When the crisis hit, he had run out of options other than bankruptcy.

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Balance Sheet Government Banking Compensation 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Another way of looking at this is to start from the US federal government's share of GDP, around $3.5 But divide that number by ten and you are back down to a three percent cut in government spending. Again, taking $1.2 trillion off that figure in one year would be economically devastating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Five years of government expenditure cuts, higher taxes, private-sector retrenchments, and corporate bankruptcies have crushed the country’s people. The new government will have to use much of the latest bailout package to repay existing debts rather than to rebuild the shattered economy.

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Assets 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

To help the public swallow this pill, we'll combine this rediscovered fiscal with visiting a certain amount of retribution on and regulation of the banks, who must, after all, be punished for encouraging and enabling poor people and poor governments to borrow in the first place. It's too late. This isn't easy either.

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Balance Sheet Banking Government Scaling 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

In a recent post on HBR.org , I called attention to the fact that we entrepreneurship promoters are too focused on start-up, and need to re-balance the dialog to support scale-up as well. That dialog includes all stakeholders, from the entrepreneurs themselves to investors to government policymakers. have spread like wildfire.

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Balance Sheet Government Scaling Cash Flow 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

Companies were required to certify their financial statements, follow new rules in reporting pro-forma earnings and off-balance sheet transactions, and issue voluminous reports on their internal financial controls. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was the last big attempt to improve financial disclosure.

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Balance Sheet Accounts Marketing Government 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Insolvency is usually a balance sheet concept based around the valuation of assets. All governments in practice secure their national debts on their abilities to levy taxes. With the passing of the monarchical governance structure, responsibility for a nation's debt moved from the rulers to the ruled.

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Balance Sheet Banking Assets Government 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

For example, the level of trust in a society—in government institutions, in the courts, in fellow citizens, all measured separately—has a big impact on prosperity, as does access to opportunity—the perception that good work will be rewarded.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

The traditional response to the problem of insufficient demand is government-led infrastructure spending. Yes, no doubt many countries would benefit from better infrastructure, and the current low cost of borrowing for governments suggests that it would be a good time to make such investments.

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Banking Assets Government Balance Sheet 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Last month, the government was partially shut down for 16 days at a cost of $24 billion and we came within two days of running out of money to meet our debt obligations. The current government funding will run out in January. In financial terms, and especially with regards to credit, governments are no different.

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Balance Sheet Government Scaling Revenue 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Furthermore, there will be new complexities in managing the balance sheet and navigating wider financing decisions; particularly as the “carry trade” (the strategy of borrowing at low interest rates in developed countries and investing in higher yielding emerging markets), becomes less attractive.

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Balance Sheet Banking Operations Strategic Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making.

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Risk Management Manager Balance Sheet Compliance 14

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.

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Balance Sheet Reorganization Compensation Government 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Failure to present a groundbreaking new vision risks leaving in place old economic drivers, especially the over-reliance on fixed-asset investment, that have created serious challenges such as China’s “ghost cities” and high levels of local government debt. The central government must start to give more tax revenues to local governments.

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Balance Sheet Government Revenue Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and the person leading the Financial Stability Board's recovery and resolution work programme, believes that banks have "nowhere to hide" in the post-crisis era and must face navigate stress in the future without relying on Government support. Iceland, Ireland).

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Yet the recent kerfuffle around the national TV company and the near collapse of the government are reminders that the country still has a way to go before it''s off the sick list. On the positive side, Greece has tidied up its balance sheet (at least the privately held debt), and nearly balanced its budget, excluding interest payments.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

There's little or no evidence that the modern criteria for good corporate governance actually lead to better-governed corporations. What's generally seen as the most important good-governance move of them all, pushing insiders off boards in favor of independent directors, may actually hurt performance.

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Balance Sheet Government Banking Compensation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The benefits might come in the form of easily recognized savings on the balance sheet, but the costs may accrue over time in the more obscure form of added organizational complexity. Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers). Research has shown that a 1% rise in insurance adoption translates into a 22% decrease in the taxpayer burden of uninsured losses.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Like they have for extreme weather and natural disasters, companies can begin to establish international protocols and standards to govern AI not just within their own walls, but also to put in place processes to work with other companies, insurers, and policymakers. Intelligent Device Recovery Plans. AI International Protocols.

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Insurance Balance Sheet Government Scaling 8

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 would implement targets linked to shareholder value, including ROE and ROIC.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

First, there is a growing realization that the not-for-profit sector has, over the last 50 years, been neither as effective nor as efficient as required by either the communities they serve or the donors (from government, philanthropy, and the private sector) that fund their efforts.

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Balance Sheet Nonprofit Retention Recruitment 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These funds were used to fill the balance sheet hole caused by the prior derivative losses. As Woodford began to untangle this web of fraud and corruption, he was blocked by company governance and Japanese business culture — and, like many whistleblowers, felt threatened and friendless.

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