Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

.” GreenBiz founder Joel Makower defines a stranded asset as “a financial term that describes something that has become obsolete or nonperforming well ahead of its useful life, and must be recorded on a company’s balance sheet as a loss of profit.” So-called “sunny day flooding”, (i.e

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Even with about $700 billion in capital available in the United States and hundreds of billions of dollars more around the globe, property and casualty insurers’ balance sheets are too small to cover all the potential losses from a global intelligent device disaster.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Here, I include both basic storage, processing, and communications technologies, as well as the more sophisticated architectures, analysis tools, and cognitive technologies that are the engines of monetization.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Search Engine Traffic Search engine traffic (if someone found by blog via a search rather than a bookmark) looks like this. A look at Mozilla''s balance sheet raises questions about its long-term prospects, especially as it tries to move aggressively into the mobile sector with its own Firefox OS.

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. But that doesn’t square with reality.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

An activist Federal Reserve is an engine of disaster and little more. Without paying banks interest to hold excess reserves idle in the banking system, the Fed could reduce its balance sheet by more than one-third (over $1.4 Notice something. trillion) without pushing short-term interest rates above zero.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering. Yes—an elementary school for budding engineers, pre-K through grade 5 (10 years old). It’s a lot more than a healthy balance sheet, although that’s certainly a necessary—but not sufficient—precondition. What makes for a healthy company?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. Or they can develop conventional reservoirs where it will require long-term investments in new technologies to bring the cycle times and costs more in line with those of nimble shale producers.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. Herrenknecht started his business 40 years ago as a one-person engineering company. They belong to a class of small-to-medium German enterprises that are outperforming the country’s top public companies.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. After three years the company wrote off three times the acquisition cost. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control. As my colleague Peter Cappelli recently argued , automation technologies are profitable, in part, because they are considered an asset on a firm’s balance sheet that can be depreciated.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

That forecast is significantly worse than the one reported by independent auditor Integrated Financial Engineering Inc., While these reforms may improve FHAs balance sheet over the long term, they would also reduce market liquidity, which in turn could cause home prices to fall. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) Swamped by Defaults.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Consider how Nest is networking its thermostats, smoke alarms, and cameras to create home security solutions, or how Caterpillar and GE are each networking their equipment and engines to save millions in maintenance costs.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

By the way I seriously discount much the overexcited talk in the market about how the PBoC engineered the freeze the markets in order to punish the banks and to force discipline onto the financial system. the country’s balance sheet, and this will mean not a collapse but. Pettis Guest Post End. China Bulls Beware.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

This isn’t the first time, of course, that the balance-sheet dynamics during a growth miracle have created unrealistic evaluations about the quality of policymaking. While I am relatively optimistic about the likelihood of Beijing’s engineering a successful economic rebalancing, my expectations come with a high variance.

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MishTalk

JULY 13, 2015

Keep in mind, BitGold will remain the high velocity payments engine of the combined entity, while GoldMoney will continue as the precious metals vaulting and investment firm. This makes silver an unattractive element for high velocity payments as we subsidize the storage fee from our own operational balance sheet.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain. In these cases, the insurers’ right to subrogate, or go after the assets of others to recoup their losses, is largely unenforceable.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

3) Update management and leadership practices: An extended analytics engine fueled by multiple information sources, however, can accomplish little without the ability to act on future predictions. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. It’s also untrue because the requirement for more capital is about how banks fund their balance sheets, not the size of the balance sheet.

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