Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. Arguments for Strategic Cash. It can: Save Taxes. How Should You Approach Strategic Cash?

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

When changes in the natural environment accelerate, so do the extinction rates of the Earth's creatures. real revenue and profit growth and earning their cost of capital has steadily declined. Stock markets might seem capricious, but in the long term, shareholder returns closely track operational performance. "We

Creativity 14

Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

In fact, they''re operating at such a comparatively low level that as things stand now, many of them, including utilities, will be able to emit as much carbon as they want for the next decade without hitting their limits. The effects were immediate: Carbon credits crashed, dropping more than 35%.

Price 9

Price Energy Politics Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

When Caesars Entertainment, a gaming company, reorganized operations in 2011, the senior team not only developed a database on the performance and the potential of the company’s top 2,000 managers but also analyzed the ability of the top 150 to take on new and different jobs. Invest human capital just like you invest financial capital.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Management Company ROCE 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The oil refinery illustrates the general point that the way you create an environment in which those operating it can make coherent decisions is to choose a variable to optimize and set minimums (and maximums if you wish) for all the other relevant variables. This works regardless of which variable you choose to maximize.

Objective 8

Objective Cost of Capital Bottom-up Environment 8