Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

What we asked people was, at this point in their lives, are they actively building, maintaining, or depleting their tangible and intangible assets? Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. Over 10,000 people completed it.

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Intangible Assets Self-aware Reputation Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Though the story is still developing, there are a few big, interconnected lessons to be drawn from what we know so far. Decades ago, a company’s market value was nearly equivalent to its tangible assets—buildings, machinery, materials, financial capital, and so on. Being clean and green has real, bottom-line value.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Reputation Bottom-up Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

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IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Contrast Walmart’ $160 billion of hard assets for its $300 billion valuation against Facebook’s $9 billion dollars of hard assets for its $500 billion valuation. The economic purpose of these intangible investments is no different than that of an industrial company’s factories and buildings.

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Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Often when superstar cities fall, they tend to be advanced economy cities, replaced by a developing economy city. Acquisitions, bold investment in intangible assets, and attracting talent can ultimately make the difference. The churn rate of superstar cities is half that of superstar firms.

Industry 13

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. 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.

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

That includes identifying your current mix of assets and the business model that your asset portfolio creates. For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social?

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Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

Intangible Assets 12

Intangible Assets Operations Health Care Conference 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point. HR strategy is an expertise that takes years to fully develop.”.

CFO 12

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The health technology and technology services industries are creating highly scalable, and highly desirable, intangible assets. In the future many more companies will go the way of Uber and Airbnb, leveraging a network’s assets: our cars, homes, insights, skills, and relationships. Reallocate capital.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Business Model Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The most forward-thinking companies are developing new business models to create value from these kinds of information exchanges. (2) 2) Develop open multiple multi-sided relationships: Altruism or openness alone will not give rise to ready access to the diversity of data required to understand the predictive future.

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Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The most forward-thinking companies are developing new business models to create value from these kinds of information exchanges. (2) 2) Develop open multiple multi-sided relationships: Altruism or openness alone will not give rise to ready access to the diversity of data required to understand the predictive future.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Self-aware Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Through our research on network-centric businesses and our experience advising hundreds of companies we have developed a framework for understanding customer affinity. Each has moved beyond allowing customers to design their own products, to share value by acting as a platform to promote the customer networks’ talents and assets.

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CRM Brand Business Model Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Second, for small and rapid-growth technology companies, the problem is compounded by the fact that, while rich in intangible assets, they typically lack the kind of collateral (equipment, inventory, real estate, etc.) We are seeing safeguards and screening systems to mitigate default rates being developed by PEPP and Boefly.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

corporations to accumulate assets in those affiliates (now estimated at $2.6 The legislation would replace the tax on profits that are repatriated with a low-rate tax on annual profits attributable to the intangible assets of their foreign affiliates, impose a one-time transition tax on the stock of accrued foreign profits of U.S.

Company 9

Company Intangible Assets Incentives Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Over 70% of the firms’ software budgets goes to code developed in-house or under custom contracts. Most industries in the U.S.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Especially given the fragmentation of the ”splinternet,” dramatized by the development of a distinct internet ecology in China, this is currently a matter of much concern. But developments such as robotics and 3-D printing might end up reducing rather than increasing trade levels, depending on how quickly their costs drop.

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.

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GDP Wilde Intangible Assets GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For example, they move corporate charters abroad through inversion transactions , and they move profits abroad by investing outside the United States or by using transactions that shift ownership of intangible assets and reported income to their affiliates in tax havens in which they have little production or sales.

Company 8

Company Proposal Intangible Assets Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

Getting tax reform done requires strong political leadership, significant input from government staffers with technical expertise, and development of a public consensus of the need for change. (For instance, getting rid of a tax credit might hurt a few companies a lot but benefit everyone else a little bit.).

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Committee Budgeting Politics 8