Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

Ethics 46

Ethics Balance Sheet System Productivity 46

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

Management 53

Management Company Balance Sheet Talent 53

Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.” After all, they have many capabilities that entrants are racing to replicate, such as access to markets, technologies, and healthy balance sheets.

Film 28

Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Entrepreneurs need to learn that highlighting their own growth attracts talent, investors, and customers. Mayors and other public officials need to learn that communicating growth helps make their cities more attractive to businesses and investors and helps them to compete with megacities for talent.

Training 28

Training Training Banking Balance Sheet 28

Free Agent CFO

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many accounting managers do that. ” But the CFO coach reminded her that being a past-based CFO is a gift and to use that talent wisely. The balance sheet is dull and boring with almost no debt. It’s one of those balance sheets that lacks drama. Focusing on the past is not. Never forget it.”

Balance Sheet 45

Balance Sheet Cash Flow Financial Report 45

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Applying them broadly without reference to your talent strategy could make it impossible to source or retain the people you need to achieve goals.

Benchmarking 31

Benchmarking Company Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 31

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 The most productive companies have the talent they need to generate good growth options.

Cash Flow 41

Cash Flow Financial Balance Sheet Bain 41

Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. The management understood that doing three deals a year meant they had to do due diligence on 20 companies and submit five bids. So WPP acquired the ad agencies J.

Research 28

Research Balance Sheet Industry Sales 28

Rod Burkert

JUNE 3, 2020

I remember offsetting a rather large write-off for one project against smaller write-ups for several other projects for almost a year until it was erased because I was too afraid to tell the managing partner.]. That often leads to unreasonable expectations and the desire to micro-manage the relationship, which I have experienced.

Balance Sheet 52

Balance Sheet Talent Productivity Strategy 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. This is true both for “on balance sheet” workers and the gig economy. Everywhere today the news confronts us with deeply held fears of AI and automation.

Balance Sheet 28

Balance Sheet Efficiency Agile Financial 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

We’re focusing today on how new challenges and new technologies are changing human capital management, and how to ensure that this key resource becomes a sustained competitive advantage for your company. How are those changes impacting business leaders, and what does that mean for human capital management? Angelia Herrin, HBR.

Deloitte 31

Deloitte Consulting Data Talent 31

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” 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.

Banking 28

Banking Financial Balance Sheet System 28