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How to Foster Innovative Thinking at Your Company

CEO Insider

Innovation has a good reputation in the corporate world. Innovative ideas, an innovative culture, a history of innovation — these are all intangible assets that any business leader would love to have. It might mean something different to every executive you talk to, but surely everyone wants it.

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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." If ego and time allow, the list can be quite long.

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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

Sonnenberg believes that leaders who have a jaded view of intangible assets will never make the commitment required to reap their full potential. An innovative and creative environment and mindset that reinvents itself every day.

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A Novel Idea for Putting Sidelined Cash to Work

Harvard Business Review

To drive shareholder value and be a catalyst for economic recovery, our nation's largest companies must deploy their assets in a productive manner, either internally for innovation and organic growth, or externally for corporate venture capital investments, research partnerships, joint ventures and alliances, or acquisitions.

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The Answer to Short-Termism Isn’t Asking Investors to Be Patient

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Gathering information on a firm’s intangible assets is costly, and so not worth doing if you own only a tiny bit of stock in a company.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. The Balanced Scorecard's primary form of novelty is that it takes into account the intangible assets that are so crucial for information-age companies. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP.