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

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?

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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. With two separate balance sheets, management could plan around the risk variables (i.e. Example: Jolly Inc. more efficiently.

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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. Bharti has enjoyed compounded annual growth in sales revenues of 120% and growth in net profits of 282% per year between 2003 and 2010. to $0.005 per minute, perhaps the lowest rates in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

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. How It Works. Similar to other as-a-service models, LaaS allows a customer to “rent” its ceilings to a service provider.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Perhaps most importantly, the large balance sheets of established manufacturing companies are well positioned to carry startups across the financing gap between demonstration and large-scale commercialization, which is often referred to as "the valley of death".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Plus, the same measures that yield such efficiency gains also offer myriad other benefits , from improved employee health and retention, to better sales and lease-up rates, to enhanced brand reputation. These are often overlooked on balance sheets but can generate significant extra value for companies. Invest in smart controls.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

It's all an astonishing story — except that similar things happen on a lesser scale all the time. Many of the entries on a company's income statement and balance sheet reflect estimates, assumptions, and procedural rules. Investors and lenders find themselves misled by companies' financials.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

But the recent attempt to launch a major infrastructure program in the euro zone – the so-called “ Juncker plan ” – illustrates that such proposals are hindered by politics, are rarely timely, and are often insufficient in scale to make a real difference to the larger economy. We need new policies.

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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. You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales. Corning spent a net $3.2

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The company’s revenue from ad sales had jumped in the past year, so it had some cash on hand. Everyone’s wondering how we’re going to scale. What happens to the balance sheet if we bring in paid developers?” In fact, we haven’t been able to turn one idea from a volunteer into a viable product since our first year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

With refrains of “unlock hidden value” and “increase shareholder value,” and powered by over $120 billion in assets , activist investors like Trian look for companies like GE (or Procter & Gamble) whose share price is underperforming relative to its peers (or that have large amounts of cash on their balance sheets).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet. The speed and scale on which this is occurring helps us recognize that we are not in a cyclical downturn as corporations attempt to compensate for the disruptive impact of digital technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

A company's foreign sales can approach or exceed 50 percent; its non-U.S. 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. Worker Transition at Home.

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