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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Most intangible assets are real but invisible, and the most important invisible ability is the ability (or, perhaps better said, the probability) to collaborate.

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What VW Didn’t Understand About Trust

Harvard Business Review

In a strange way, VW’s chicanery only reinforces how important it is for products today to be environmentally safe. Decades ago, a company’s market value was nearly equivalent to its tangible assets—buildings, machinery, materials, financial capital, and so on. What exactly is all that intangible value?

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business Review

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. However, digital companies often have assets that are intangible in nature, and many have ecosystems that extend beyond the company’s boundaries.

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Why Family Businesses Come Roaring out of Recessions

Harvard Business Review

Tobin’s q is the ratio between a company’s market capitalization and the replacement cost of its tangible assets, with a higher ratio indicating that a company has more intangible assets such as patents, brands, leadership etc., Leadership Marketing' during the growth years to 0.8

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

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? Let’s think about the realm that the CFO led.

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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

Through co-creation, companies can access a deep well of customer capabilities, knowledge and assets. Although the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a market standard, customer promotion alone can’t sustain a co-creation model. However, they do not promote your brand and they may switch easily to other products.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers.

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