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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

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. We can change that, if we begin with our own example first.

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Managing resources for sustainable growth in organisations

Chartered Management Institute

Whether it’s raw materials, financial capital or human talent, resources are the building blocks that allow companies to operate efficiently and deliver value to their stakeholders.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

This reliance has evolved because despite the enormous volumes of capital they control, most of these giants are strictly “firewalled” and cannot use the capital to fund actual operations, even if doing so would generate higher expected investment returns or lower risk.

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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

They determine what material and intangible means of disease and trauma prevention, diagnosis, and treatment are needed for each mission. Medicines, instruments, consumables, and exercise devices belong to material assets; intangible assets involve medical expertise on board and on the ground, processes, procedures, and protocols.

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Profiting from the Golden Rule

Harvard Business Review

Even accounting rules specifically dealing with reputation — goodwill and intangible assets — are subject to frequent rule changes and endless debate. When properly installed and operated, it delivers financial growth. Perhaps the accountants are just overcomplicating a basic idea.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. In the early 1980’s, sixty percent of corporate value creation emanated from the optimization of tangible assets.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. Digital firms are as valuable for their intangible capital as were the 20 th century firms for their land, building, and factories.

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