Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The following guest post is from James Clawson , one of those external instructors we partner with in a program we’re doing for a global, Fortune 500 client called “Change Leadership”. Theories of leadership abound to the point of confusion. Given the shape of the model, let's call this the “diamond model of leadership.”

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Leadership Intangible Assets Human Capital Organizational Behavior 230

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Investors grapple daily in an effort to figure out how to value companies whose accounting assets — things like land, capital, products, and licenses — don't adequately express their true market value.

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Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. 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. How much is changing?

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Intangible Assets Business Model GAAP Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Though the story is still developing, there are a few big, interconnected lessons to be drawn from what we know so far. Decades ago, a company’s market value was nearly equivalent to its tangible assets—buildings, machinery, materials, financial capital, and so on. Being clean and green has real, bottom-line value.

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Intangible Assets Reputation Bottom-up Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. The economic purpose of these intangible investments is no different than that of an industrial company’s factories and buildings.

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Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

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. But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes. Organizational transformation must begin with a leadership transformation.

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Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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