AIHR

APRIL 5, 2018

To successfully operate as an ExO, an organization should find the right mix between people and technology to scale impact and accelerate growth. ExOs seem to have mastered artful augmentation—leveraging the power of technology while further developing the enduring human skill sets needed to capture value in the market.

Balance Sheet 58

Balance Sheet Assets Marketing Operations 58

UVA Darden

MARCH 20, 2023

Most of SVB’s deposits were from Silicon Valley startup companies and their venture capital backers, who parked money at the bank that the companies used for day-to-day operations, including paying employees. Q: So what happens next? Smith: My guess is that actions by the Fed, Treasury and FDIC will prevent any more bank runs.

Banking 45

Banking Balance Sheet Assets Insurance 45

Andrew Chen

MARCH 21, 2016

It’s marketing by engineers. Or engineering by marketers. During the dot-com boom , there was a bunch of traditional marketers who believed they could use normal consumer marketing techniques to grow websites,” Andrew remembers. “It Marketing became a dirty word. Sean’s background was in direct response marketing.

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Engineering Marketing Balance Sheet Advertising 56

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. Too many students are distracted and disengaged. Other fields do this.

Balance Sheet 19

Balance Sheet Education Recruitment Government 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. B operated the same way as A, with no special control.

Energy 15

Energy Balance Sheet Software Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That fact becomes apparent when you juxtapose the balance sheet of a company like Microsoft with the balance sheet of a company like Siemens. Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. It’s as simple as that. The challenge? Consider the 2.4

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Balance Sheet Manager Assets Software 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In 2009, he confessed to developing an ill-conceived plan to market GEICO credit cards and also failed to rein in NetJets' debt, which had soared to $1.9 Gain accounting advantage : Buffett reports on the performance of his operating businesses by grouping them according to similar balance sheet and income statement characteristics.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Insurance Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. To analyze EvD, determining the relative importance of data to an enterprise’s balance sheet, its ability to effectively compete, and its operational capabilities is a good place to start.

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Balance Sheet Assets Insurance Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. And in D and E markets, the environment demands a very high contribution per transaction.

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Balance Sheet Banking Benchmarking Scaling 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

This odd couple announced a collaboration last week to "work together to apply scientific knowledge and experience to examine how Dow's operations rely on and affect nature.". Or in business terms, we're drawing down the assets on the balance sheet of the world. is very low in the near-term).

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Balance Sheet Assets Strategic Planning Operations 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Creating this new intelligent store requires, at the very least, the CIO, the chief marketing officer, the SVP of store operations and the SVP of e-commerce to determine how to best engage with increasingly digital-savvy, data-driven shoppers.

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Balance Sheet eCommerce Media Assets 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. But in financial markets, it's problematic. . • The largest U.S. Why you're very welcome, Financial Services Roundtable!

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Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

Marketing 12

Marketing Balance Sheet Compensation Benefits 12

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. Facilitate Investments. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g.,

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Insurance Banking Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

Your prices must be higher or your costs, including the cost of your balance sheet and the cost of taxes, must be lower. To do that, you need to come up with some clever offer that entices customers to pay higher prices or some operational innovation that lowers costs, or find a new market where there aren’t many competitors.

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Balance Sheet Recruitment Operations Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

Balance Sheet 13

Balance Sheet Banking Operations Strategic Planning 13

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. Since it’s a measure on the return you’re making in the operations of your business, it can be used by industrial or manufacturing companies to measure efficiency. Take Enron.

Assets 14

Assets Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. In other words, they connected with people who could help them with customer issues, such as staff in finance, legal, pricing, or marketing.

Manager 15

Manager Balance Sheet Energy Reorganization 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

The AP crisis and the virtually certain (at least) nominal debt default sends a message to global capital markets: the debt-to-equity ratios in the microfinance industry were too high. At the prevailing ratios, management failed to act prudentially. That could likely have consequences.

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Balance Sheet Banking Marketing Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. In a rapidly changing industry ecosystem, heavy investments in hard infrastructure can burden balance sheets and limit flexibility. Its market cap has steadily grown over the same period and stood at around US$30 billion as of 2010. The trend is spreading.

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Balance Sheet Variable Costs Telecommunications Fixed Costs 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Balance Sheet Digital Transformation Engineering Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. Importantly, this advancement in controls technology allows the lighting system to be controlled, owned, and operated by a third party, shifting the investment off the building’s balance sheet.

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Balance Sheet Energy Operations Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

cash on the balance sheet) and running lean operations in good times. But at that moment, AMD failed to bring its K5 microprocessor to market in time. The best leaders in our study prepared for bad-luck events by building reserves (e.g.,

Manager 15

Manager Balance Sheet Operations Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. A robust, frictionless partner network could mean many more redemption options outside of the core travel product, thereby creating a much-needed release valve for these growing balance-sheet pressures.

Travel 15

Travel Balance Sheet Banking Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 14

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

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement.

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Balance Sheet Assets Revenue Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2011

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. In marketing, bad data make it more difficult to know the potential client. And no industry is immune.

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Assets Implementation Government 15

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. For example, despite all the froth about how companies need to accelerate growth in emerging markets, three-quarters of the U.S.

eCommerce 10

eCommerce Balance Sheet Strategic Planning Operations 10

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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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. When Uncle Wall Street (also known as Mr. Market ) is in a generous mood, Bezos is always ready to take advantage by putting investment ahead of profitability.

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Balance Sheet Metrics Marketing Travel 14

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). Failure to act may consign many large players to the continuing trust deficit or, worse, irrelevance.

Insurance 15

Insurance Balance Sheet Assets Revenue 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Google and its disruptive advertising model leads the pack with a $370 billion market capitalization, but consider also companies like Facebook ($225 billion), LinkedIn ($25 billion), Twitter ($24 billion), TripAdvisor ($11 billion), and Yelp ($3 billion). The combined market value of those four companies? Scripps, McClatchy, and A.H.

Media 13

Media Advertising Balance Sheet Cash Flow 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. homes have broadband , and network operators continue to invest in ever-faster cable, satellite, and fiber-based technologies. The Blockbuster-Netflix skirmish is a case in point. Then in 1997, Netflix happened.

Balance Sheet 10

Balance Sheet Assets Digital Transformation Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The market panicked. That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. This is most apparent in the credit markets, where revenues have shrunk by more than 40% from pre-crisis peaks. HBR Staff/CSA Plastock/Getty Images.

Banking 8

Banking Balance Sheet Assets Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. The 300,000 companies in the association’s data set have more than doubled their profits from operations over the past 13 years, outpacing their corporate counterparts in the country. This success is no blip.

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Balance Sheet B2B Recruitment Retention 15

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. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road. Even better. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Balance Sheet Government Scaling Cash Flow 10