Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Frank Sonnenberg makes the case in Managing with a Conscience , that the only sustainable way to succeed is the right way—not cutting corners—emphasizing the intangibles like trust, creativity, focus, speed, flexibility, relationships, loyalty, and employee commitment. Management should announce an open-door policy.

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Management Intangible Assets Critical Success Factor Open-book 285

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." If you can't measure it, how can you manage it?

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Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

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. Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. What about innovation? Tim Evans for HBR.

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The superstars tend to be more involved in global flows of trade and finance, more digitally mature, and they dominate the lists of the most valued companies, the most valued brands, the most desirable places to work, and the most innovative companies. Productivity can help; but it is not enough to achieve superstardom.

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Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. 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.

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Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Today, however, by exploiting new digital technologies, firms like Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB have made customer co-creation of value central to their business models and in doing so now rank among the world’s most innovative and valuable firms. But they might see a dramatic change in engagement and innovation if they did.

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CRM Brand Business Model Intangible Assets 8