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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants. As a result of this deepening disruption, the ways in which companies are valued and capital gets allocated could change forever.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

They come from all regions and sectors and include global banks and manufacturing companies, long-standing Western consumer brands, and fast-growing U.S. Acquisitions, bold investment in intangible assets, and attracting talent can ultimately make the difference. times more economic loss today than 20 years ago.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business Review

Our research has found that intangible investments have surpassed property, plant, and equipment as the main avenue of capital creation for U.S. The balance sheet has also become less useful for banks’ lending decisions because banks rely on asset coverage to calculate their security.

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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

They determine what material and intangible means of disease and trauma prevention, diagnosis, and treatment are needed for each mission. Medicines, instruments, consumables, and exercise devices belong to material assets; intangible assets involve medical expertise on board and on the ground, processes, procedures, and protocols.

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The Case for Stock Buybacks

Harvard Business Review

But these claims are very rarely backed up by large-scale evidence, and often driven by a misunderstanding of how buybacks actually operate. Since these shareholders have “skin in the game”, they have the incentive to look beyond earnings and instead look to a company’s long-term growth opportunities and intangible assets.

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Research: The Digitization of Banks Disproportionately Hurts Women Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

As banks rush to digitize their operations , many have found that closing their local branches can help maintain a high return on an otherwise pricy transformation. European banks, for example, closed over 9,000 branches in 2016, which represents a 4.6% In the United States, the total number of bank branches has dropped by 8.2%