There are seven capital investments available for organizations to build value and wealth: human, relationship, spiritual, customer, organizational, physical and financial. In the 1980 Winter Olympics ...

A manufacturer’s intangible assets are vastly more valuable than its tangible assets; therefore, these invisible assets can be successfully leveraged for growth, while minimizing risk. At the upcoming ...

Discover how amortization and impairment affect intangible assets such as patents and goodwill, and understand their impact ...

In the cover story for this week's edition of BusinessWeek, Michael Mandel offers an intriguing hypothesis. He suggests that the impact of recession-driven cuts in corporate spending supporting ...

As businesses shift toward knowledge-based industries and digital innovation, intangible assets are becoming increasingly important in financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and overall ...

Intangible investment is growing as a share of economic activity. We present a simple framework incorporating its distinguishing characteristic of generally greater scalability and lower marginal ...

Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy. By Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake. Princeton University Press; 278 pages; $29.95 and £24.95. RICH economies are full of puzzles.

At The Wall Street Journal’s 2017 CEO Council meeting, Gary Cohn—then the director of the White House National Economic Council—spoke to the Trump administration’s tax reform efforts. “We want ...

Discussions of internal investments normally focus on planning for a capital budget—meaning physical infrastructure that is capitalized on financial statements. Manufacturing will always be a ...

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