CEO, Intellectual Capital and Management

The 5-point plan to build a fantastic reputation

CEO Insider

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And with Harvard Business Review citing 70-80 percent of a firm’s market value coming from intangible assets such as brand equity, intellectual capital, and goodwill, it’s vitally important for all CEOs to proactively manage their reputation given […]. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021.

Reputation

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

Bureaucracy

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CEOs Need Hard Data on Customer Loyalty

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Customer Loyalty

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Human capital. We normally think of people as something to be managed. Intellectual capital.

Intellectual Capital

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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

According to Ocean Tomo, a consulting firm focused on intellectual capital, physical assets (plant, property, and equipment) made up more than 80% of the market value of the S&P 500 in 1975. Further, it simpler and less risky for managers tend to stick closely to the previous year’s budget. How much is changing?

Intangible Assets

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Why IBM Gives Top Employees a Month to Do Service Abroad

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

According to Litow, the objective was threefold: to support IBMers in their service engagements, to invest the intellectual capital of IBMers in tackling social issues around the world, and to develop the expertise and leadership of IBMers through volunteer opportunities that leverage their skills and abilities.

Intellectual Capital

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Why IBM Gives Top Employees a Month to Do Service Abroad

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

According to Litow, the objective was threefold: to support IBMers in their service engagements, to invest the intellectual capital of IBMers in tackling social issues around the world, and to develop the expertise and leadership of IBMers through volunteer opportunities that leverage their skills and abilities.

Intellectual Capital

Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage

Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

It started 30 years ago with the progressive and unusual step (for that time) of shifting from local nationals as country managers to global leaders from other countries. As a consequence, five of its CEOs have been non-American-born, including today's CEO, Turkish-born Muhtar Kent.

Competitive Advantage

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3 Critical Components of a Shared Mental Model

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

As our situation in the C-Suite continues, the manager of the top performing sales team offered to me on a coffee break how he planned to reward his team when they hit 330% of their sales goal for this quarter. A6: We do not have a single High Definition Destination; we have a situation which feels like 3,000 mini-CEOs.

Intellectual Capital

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital. These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed. But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes.

Intangible Assets

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital

The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

McKinsey

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Can Hewlett Packard Make its Own Luck?

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

While the technology giant's second-quarter revenue increased by 3%, its relatively new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was forced to lower the forecast for revenue for the fiscal year. HP's culture has gone through a transformation since it hired its first outside CEO, Carly Fiorina, and at least some of that change was necessary.

Software

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Most Organizations Still Fear Social Media

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

Most organizations, however, still view social media as a threat to productivity, intellectual capital, security, privacy, management authority, or regulatory compliance. For example, a grass roots "Shores Stores Group" formed among the more than 100 store managers with stores located in vacation communities.

Media

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Retain Your Top Performers

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