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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action. ” to the crew.

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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

Sperling is catching flak, though, for something that was first disclosed in 2009 — the fact that he was paid $887,727 in 2008 by Goldman Sachs. million in one year from the hedge fund D.E. This gap between what employees of Goldman and its Wall Street peers (including hedge funds, private equity firms, etc.)

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

In 2009 it was $1.3 After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. His response: “While I think using 13Fs to track hedge fund stock-pickers works great, in my mind it works less so for the activist guys.” In 2012 it was $1.9

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Women, Finance the World You Want

Harvard Business Review

So if you feel uncomfortable as an investor, here are two bullets to pack in your pistol: Investing is about financing dreams. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home. Investing also finances the kind of world we want. To wit, a study by Hedge Fund Research Inc. Investing is about taking stock in you.