Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

For an industrial company dealing with physical assets and goods, the balance sheet presents a reasonable picture of productive assets and the income statement provides a reasonable approximation of expenses required to create shareholder value. Many digital companies have no physical products and have no inventory to report.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

Some studies (see here or here ) have shown that during periods of economic growth, family-managed companies in the US actually perform better than professionally managed businesses. Family-owned businesses did not hold back on new product launches during the recessions. during the growth years to 0.8 during recessions.

First-mover Advantage 10

First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets Sample Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

An informed shareholder, who looks beyond earnings numbers and analyzes the company’s intangible assets, would notice that the firm has mortgaged its future. Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. Productivity also improves in plants sold by hedge funds.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

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.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. An idea, behavior, or product is creative if it is both novel and appropriate to some goal. 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.

Creative Accounting 15

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 12

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When CVS/Caremark announced that it would forego some $2 billion in sales of tobacco and related products recently, CEO Larry J. Because senior managers tend to focus on the short-term operational and financial aspects of their companies rather than the intangible assets that are worth so much more.

Reputation 8

Reputation Intangible Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Example: Carol owns a small business and needs a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. However, they do not promote your brand and they may switch easily to other products. Promoters: These customers frequently purchase your products or services and are very loyal. Co-creation advantages.

CRM 8

CRM Brand Business Model Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

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. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S. retains its leadership in technological progress.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such relentless work will inevitably deplete precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship. The same is true for education.

Intangible Assets 11

Intangible Assets Career Education Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Richard Harvey, in earlier testimony, said that the company managed to avoid about $7.7 and the allocation of corporate talent and efforts (away from productive uses and toward rent-seeking). Consider the ratio of transport costs to product value for a steel bar, an automobile, a semiconductor chip and a piece of software.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Incentives System GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge. In short, from many to one to many.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. The practice of management itself must evolve for this capability to emerge.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Self-aware Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. ” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years, I have heard from plenty of managers who have lamented that the pressure of quarterly earnings targets imposes a heavy toll on their ability to focus on the long term. Some of the managers actively advocate doing away with quarterly reporting. Moreover, twice yearly reporting would make companies less transparent.

Report 8

Report Intangible Assets Short-term EPS 8