Chief Executive

JUNE 13, 2022

Lower Covid numbers, back the office trends, interest in travel increasing, and individuals and corporations still have strong balance sheets,” said the CEO of a midsized investor-owned supplier. Finding people is another major problem, so even if we find the parts, we will still have issues executing.”

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Balance Sheet Government Administration Recruitment 98

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 31, 2022

?. Taking Ideas to Scale Within and Beyond Organizations. And if you need help scaling organizational thought leadership, contact Thought Leadership Leverage or reach out to Bill Sherman on Linkedin! Today, we’ll be talking about taking ideas to scale within and beyond organizations. Transcript. Bill Sherman All right.

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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. Indeed, one of the fastest-growing workforce segments is the “alternative” worker—one who works off-campus and outside of an organization’s official talent balance sheet.

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Balance Sheet Assets Marketing Operations 58

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Companies must care for workers as complete “assets”, caring for workers’ health, wellness, mental health, and longevity as they would care for any tangible asset in the corporate balance sheet. That unique knowledge across the organization requires effective collaboration rather than fierce competition.

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Balance Sheet Assets Employee Engagement Recruitment 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. For a sense of scale, the national ouput of Ireland in 2007 was 155 billion euros. In Spain, really only the scale is different.

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Balance Sheet Real Estate Banking Assets 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Likewise, most of the respondents said that scaling innovation was crucial, but nearly half rated themselves as either low or below average in this area. All the firms thought that identifying new ideas was critical, but only half were confident that they had capabilities in place to do this well. But there's an acquisition gap, too.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 21, 2016

There wasn’t room on the balance sheet for an expensive marketing spend. Growth on that scale is a result of a system of growth built in and around the product. “The folks that pioneered growth hacking were those that kept building products after the dot com bubble crashed. When times got tough, startups became lean.

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Engineering Marketing Balance Sheet Advertising 56

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

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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Balance Sheet eCommerce Media Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Insolvency is usually a balance sheet concept based around the valuation of assets. In fact national borrowing on the modern scale really only began around the seventeenth century. You are insolvent when you can't pay your debts. Households and firms have struggled with insolvency for centuries.

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Balance Sheet Banking Assets Government 19

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. The most common and fast-growing source of locally generated (or “distributed”) power is rooftop solar.

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Energy Balance Sheet Software Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

And getting to scale takes a lot longer. And make no mistake: Scaling up a business to affect the lives of tens of millions of people requires a level of capital and resources that far outstrips CSR department budgets and capabilities. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story.

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Balance Sheet Banking Benchmarking Scaling 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

Even if your firm has a healthy employee base and a strong balance sheet, chances are good that it’s about to face a significant shortage of qualified managers. Globalization was at least a substantial concern for 62%, demographics for 75%, and pipelines for a whopping 84%.

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Balance Sheet Retention Recruitment Revenue 14

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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Balance Sheet Benchmarking Strategic Planning Government 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Or in business terms, we're drawing down the assets on the balance sheet of the world. As usual with sustainability strategy, companies must strike a tough balance between pursuing competitive advantage and the kind of open-source partnership needed the tackle global-scale issues.

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Balance Sheet Assets Strategic Planning Operations 18

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

JULY 21, 2011

With more than a trillion dollars on the collective balance sheet, U.S. Top companies also set great store by having talented "business runners" who ensure that the business runs like a clock and who adeptly manage the business through its lifecycle, squeezing out costs as it scales and matures.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Fourth, companies need technologies to deliver at scale and low cost. Quite obviously companies need technology — you simply can’t scale and deliver without it.

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Balance Sheet Assets Scaling Engineering 14

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

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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Balance Sheet Banking Operations Strategic Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

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. Scale-up means growth, and growth means jobs, wealth, and tax revenues. Unjam the exit if you really want to improve entrance and scale-up. Even better.

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Balance Sheet Government Scaling Cash Flow 10

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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Balance Sheet Energy Operations Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless. The scale of the downside is so large, it’s worth significant effort and investment to avoid it. Holding global warming to 2-degrees Celsius will require keeping huge quantities of fossil fuels in the ground.

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Assets Balance Sheet Real Estate Energy 14

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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Scaling Banking Balance Sheet Sales 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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In addition to measures in that direction, the ECB would still have to step in on a large scale to pump more liquidity into the financial system until confidence in their balance sheets was restored and to tide Greece and others over the immediate term. This isn't easy either.

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Balance Sheet Banking Government Scaling 12

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. More organizations are adopting a fully remote work culture. But they’re there all the same.

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Balance Sheet Travel Accounts Project Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

Insolvency is usually a balance sheet concept based around the valuation of assets. In fact national borrowing on the modern scale really only began around the seventeenth century. You are insolvent when you can't pay your debts. Households and firms have struggled with insolvency for centuries.

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Balance Sheet Banking Assets Government 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

These are often overlooked on balance sheets but can generate significant extra value for companies. 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. Invest in smart controls.

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Manager Energy Balance Sheet Accounts 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased , please stop reading. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here?

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Revenue Advertising Balance Sheet Marketing 13

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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Banking Balance Sheet Assets Compliance 8

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

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Several agencies rank government creditworthiness, and according to all of them, the US is pretty darn good: Moody’s rates us at the top of the scale with an AAA rating. Scale is important, measured by factors like annual revenues and number of employees. We’re doing exceptionally well compared to other governments.

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Balance Sheet Government Scaling Revenue 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Community is an intangible quality that is hard to capture on a standard balance sheet, so it often gets ignored by companies that lack it in their DNA. But I'm skeptical about how easy it will be to peel Zipcar's highly integrated, mission-critical technologies apart and make them work with Avis' systems at scale.

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Balance Sheet Scaling User Experience Media 8

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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Banking Assets Government Balance Sheet 12

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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Cash Flow Balance Sheet Energy Assets 15