Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. Productivity can help; but it is not enough to achieve superstardom.

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Intangible Assets 12

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

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. 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.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

(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., Family-owned businesses did not hold back on new product launches during the recessions.

First-mover Advantage 10

First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets Sample Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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. She researches what makes people creative, productive, happy, and motivated at work.

Creative Accounting 15

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As growth became a competitive imperative, business leaders began seeing the firm as a system of investment rather than a system of production. What Kunkle is particularly known for is bringing a cross-functional perspective to talent strategy at the consumer products companies she serves. Let’s think about the realm that the CFO led.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” The UK Government is launching an inquiry into buybacks , due to concerns that they “may be crowding out the allocation of surplus capital to productive investment.” It boosts prices in the short run, but the real way to boost the value of a corporation is to invest in the future, and they are not doing that.”

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Rate of Return Intangible Assets 8

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

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. All of the “products”—loans and investments—are created and provided by its members. 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.

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

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. Cook squarely placed the blame on a U.S.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Incentives System GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

But like many companies whose physical products, distribution channels and retailing operations have suddenly gone digital, the value that remains will come not from the stores and inventory that once dominated Blockbuster’s balance sheet. In doing so, they systematically undervalue their own intangible assets.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 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 ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet.

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. Such a failure would cause a significant cost and damage the customer’s brand.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Self-aware Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In 1998, a group of horse ranchers suddenly set up a production facility and filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for a generic version of Premarin. This, of course, represented a serious threat to a hugely profitable product. Is the product regularly observed in public settings?

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Merchandising Innovation Pharmaceuticals 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

In the UK setting, after the imposition of mandatory quarterly reporting we found no change in company investments, measured as capital expenditures on plants, property, equipment, R&D, and intangible assets. Hence, getting rid of quarterly reporting is unlikely to mitigate corporate short-termism.

Report 8

Report Intangible Assets Short-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Digital devotees tend to conflate digitization with intangible assets — the intensity of which has indeed soared in the last half century — in ways that exaggerate digital transformation’s potential. Some kinds of know-how, for example, are generally regarded as undigitizable.

Globalization 8

Globalization Offshoring Tacit Knowledge Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age. It struggles to account for today’s intangible assets—services, insights, and networks.

GDP 8

GDP Wilde Intangible Assets GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

A charter is a piece of paper that gives the corporation the legal authority to do business; the place where it is issued may have little connection to the location of the corporation’s production, employment, or sales or to where its shareholders live. A corporation also faces higher U.S. Let’s just make those taxes better.

Company 8

Company Proposal Intangible Assets Incentives 8