Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

For example, China’s Cybersecurity Law, in effect since last year, requires personal information and other important data to be stored locally within China. follows Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), developed through a rules-based approach. In contrast, the U.S.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

For example, companies can boost earnings per share by repurchasing shares, thereby hitting compensation targets, while forgoing value-creating investments in the business. Research shows that non-financial metrics that companies use are commonly untethered to either long-term value creation or the company’s strategic goals.

Short-term 9

Short-term Long-term Objective Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

” For example, if you want to teach an algorithm to recognize cats, you expose it to thousands of pictures of cats and things that are not cats. For example, firms operating in the U.S. Sponsored by SAS. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. This is not, of course, a completely new problem.

Ethics 8

Ethics Morale GAAP Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

GAAP and FASB standards require financial reporting of earnings, cash flow, and profitability – all measures that investors have traditionally examined. In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. Cash revenues were indeed $200 million for the year, but the correct GAAP net revenues were only $30 million and profit was $2 million. “Without that money, we’d have been gone,” said firm controller, Oli Mellows.

Crisis 8

Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

SAP, for example, has data on a variety of transactional domains, from customer orders to vacation balances. Microsoft, for example, has a program called MyAnalytics that informs customers of its Office productivity software about how much time they spend on various tasks, and the size and strength of their communications networks.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

If firms are avoiding paying taxes to foreign jurisdictions by stripping profits from, for example, Germany to Ireland, should we care? See, for example, the ongoing REIT-ization and MLP-ization of firms and parts of our economy. Such activity undercuts the credibility of the tax system and violates many of our norms.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Incentives System GAAP 8