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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Business cost structures in low-income markets are daunting: Operational expenses such as distribution frequently dwarf the costs that companies face in developed markets, while customer acquisition and retention often demand unusually intense — and costly — levels of consumer engagement. And getting to scale takes a lot longer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Nordstrom and Home Depot announced large-scale mobile solutions for their associates to help digitally enabled shoppers. Doing this right will allow the CFO to keep the store as an asset on the balance sheet, not a liability — a move shareholders would surely reward. Some retailers are responding with clever innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Commercial and industrial firms are prime candidates to become prosumers due to the large size of their facilities, variations in power use, and ability to buy and sell electricity products at scale. B operated the same way as A, with no special control. In traditional EE, one simply replaced device A with more-efficient device B.

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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. Now is the time for directors and executive committees alike to re-balance the strategy-governance scale. It’s not surprising.

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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. Either we manage these resources well, or we don't survive.

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

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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. According to the World Trade Organization, international trade this year will grow at its slowest pace since 2007. at the forefront.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Both small startups and large-scale technology companies are eyeing the possibilities this presents, and some are teaming up. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. Blockchain-based loyalty platforms could be another such disruption. Insight Center.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Leadership must realize that earning even a fraction of the value data offer takes more than simply bolting an AI program into one department or asking IT to digitize operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

In a rapidly changing industry ecosystem, heavy investments in hard infrastructure can burden balance sheets and limit flexibility. And in the regions where such deals occur, there is a snowball effect that typically produces greater economies of scale for both clients and providers. telecom providers should take notice.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Our current financial accounting model cannot capture the principle value creator for digital companies: increasing return to scale on intangible investments. 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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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. I met him again two months ago: six years later he had scaled up by a factor of ten — all the result of organic growth — and employs over 6000 people. Even better.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless. Will that asset be operational or retain its value over the normal depreciation period? The scale of the downside is so large, it’s worth significant effort and investment to avoid it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

It's co-authored with a couple new colleagues of his at the Bank of England (one a former tax lawyer , the other a physicist ), and scores higher than average on the Haldane wonkiness scale. But there is a second equilibrium where this cycle operates in reverse gear. The patience gene thrives, the impatience gene dies.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

These are often overlooked on balance sheets but can generate significant extra value for companies. But managing energy use—whether across a full corporation or just a single property—is as important as managing any other class of operating costs. Invest in smart controls.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources. Corporate venture capital is also increasingly common, as shown by the $300 million fund established by GE, ConocoPhillips, and NRG, as well as notable activity from Total, Dow, 3M, and Procter & Gamble.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.

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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 But the scales have now tipped in favor of accelerating growth. times global GDP).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Our growing reliance on so many intelligent, connected devices is opening up the possibility of global-scale shutdowns. Today, many companies are exposed to intelligent device risks that could harm both their own operations as well as their customers. Intelligent Device Recovery Plans.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

In the early days, following the company’s pivot from industrial manufacturing to marketing services, major acquisitions were the fastest way for it to achieve scale in its new industry. So WPP acquired the ad agencies J. After that, however, WPP practiced programmatic M&A, turning it into a strong muscle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. Outsourcing to robots is just another form of outsourcing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). But GE’s core businesses don’t have the scale of those online businesses. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. Both ZipDash, the creator of GPS traffic reporting, and Waze ended up joining Google to achieve more scale. Intellectual capital.

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UVA Darden

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Including emissions on the balance sheet would lead to them being more accurately tracked and hopefully reduced throughout the supply chain. When we talk about farming, the reality is that 90 percent of farmers are small operations. For this reason, reforming agricultural policy was one of the Summit’s five recommendations.

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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. bank of scale. Big banks may have fortress balance sheets, but you don’t really know what’s on them,” Holland noted. They’re complex.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations. For instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third.

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Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Instead, they operate from a values-driven leadership model rooted in purpose, long-term thinking, and a commitment to societal impact. And you can cheat your way to profitability and you can puff the data as you want and you can puff your balance sheet. Bill Sherman Right. Rajeev Peshawaria No, you can’t.

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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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