Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

IPO 14

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

As technology continues to change and challenge even the most successful incumbent organizations in every industry, the cost of inertia is growing. Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. Despite the shift to intangible assets, executives and their strategists are sticking to the status quo.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Business Model GAAP Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital. But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes. There’s no question why legacy organizations are tackling digital transformation now.

Intangible Assets 13

Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

CFO 14

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. The Blockbuster-Netflix skirmish is a case in point.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. In a previous HBR article , we argued that, in contrast to physical assets that depreciate with use, intangible assets might enhance with use.

Company 9

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

There’s a demand for this type of information, and thus product and market opportunities, but in an information services marketplace where people want everything for nothing, it is not easy to monetize information products. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet.

Company 10

Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 10