Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Those in Clinton’s camp include the venerable Aspen Institute, which produced a 2009 call to arms arguing that corporations’ short-term objectives corrode the “foundation of the American free enterprise system.” years in 2009. Hedge fund activists loom large in the discussion of short-termism.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

To distinguish correlation from causation, we use BlackRock’s 2009 acquisition of Barclays Global Investors (BGI). Recently, authorities have taken on hedge funds, alleging they violated this regulation. Existing research shows that nondiversified owners, such as activist hedge funds, incentivize CEOs to compete more vigorously.

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Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

Contrarian Number 1 is George Elliott, founder of a hedge fund (Naftilia Asset Management) that plans to buy nothing but stocks from – wait for it – Greece. As befits a Monday, we’re into contrarians this morning. Whatever it is, they’re against it, and we find that attitude bracing. Elliott does say he’ll be avoiding Greek banks, though.

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Hedge Advertising Asset Management Download 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

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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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

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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Shaw Decisionmaking Hedge Finance 13

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Soon after, when Khan began tutoring his niece in mathematics while working at a hedge fund, he hit upon the idea of developing short video tutorials on YouTube. Private donors have invested over $40 million since Khan Academy was officially launched in 2009. Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy.

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Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. If a tanker consisted of one big tank of oil, the sloshing liquid would soon capsize the vessel, Soros explains.

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Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. In 2009 it brought on Chief Digital Officer Adam Brotman, who has helped the organization navigate a digital transformation. Starbucks stopped accepting the Square payment system in late 2014.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

At least seven hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion just in 2009. The widening gap between the haves and the have-nots in today's world is breathtaking. Some 400 people on the Forbes list of richest Americans have a net worth in excess of $1 billion.

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Hedge Cost Energy Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

As best I can tell, there are three levels of bubble danger (they correlate somewhat with Hyman Minsky's three stages of economic danger: Ponzi, speculative, and hedge finance). But sometimes it works out: Amazon.com was on that Barron's list of 51 (and its stock price finally climbed back to and surpassed its dot-com era peak in 2009).

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Company Finance Price IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The same held for packages of securitized mortgages in the summer of 2008 and for Dow Jones 30 stocks in March 2009. It has spurred the growth of an entire industry that exists only to exploit volatility: the hedge fund business. Second, expectations extend deep into the imagined future. That dark side has not gone unnoticed.

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Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Back in February 2009, Owens’s ties were severely tested. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar. To borrow a term from Wharton management professor Michael Useem, Owens is most definitely a member of the global elite’s “ inner circle.”.

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Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

And while it has certainly burned many buyers of Amazon shares through the years — Amazon's stock price took a decade to get back to its 2009 peak — the long-run returns have been spectacular. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. In Morten T. How has Bezos done this?

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As you can see, the company ramped up its buyback activity during the internet boom of the late 1990s and then again in the years preceding the financial crisis of late 2008 and 2009. As has been the case with other major stock repurchasers in the United States, McDonald’s did most of its buybacks when its stock price was high.

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

Ray Dalio, head of the $165 billion Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, says it makes him feel like “a ninja in a fight.” . “If you exercise regularly,” says Barnes, “then your chronic levels of energy will be higher.” ” Meditate at your desk. Steve Jobs swore by it. ” Their secret weapon?

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How To Ryan Energy Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Only 5% of venture capitalists, 12% of angel investors, and less than 3% of hedge fund managers are women. To wit, a study by Hedge Fund Research Inc. found that between 2000 and 2009, hedge funds managed by women produced almost twice the returns of those run by men.

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Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009. Masonite began to struggle shortly after the deal was completed, in 2005, and then declared bankruptcy in 2009. Bertolini knew that such unrealistic targets would create problems.

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CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This July, aviation officials released their final report on one of the most puzzling and grim episodes in French aviation history: the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Each of these safety features, however, also increases the complexity of the whole.

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Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

Meanwhile, their hedge-fund-manager best friend is involved in big-time stock manipulation. In one of Oatley and Mar's studies in 2006 , 94 subjects were asked to guess the emotional state of a person from a photograph of their eyes. media empire. His mistrust grows when she becomes a favorite of the Rupert Murdoch-like chairman.

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Emotional Intelligence Real Estate Hedge Bottom-up 20