Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Write a letter to the company’s board demanding that it do something different from what it’s doing (buy back shares, break up, sell out to another company, throw out the CEO). In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company. Wait a while. In 2012 it was $1.9

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Hedge 314

Hedge Class Video Career 314

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. That discord in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the chief investment office's losing trades in 2012, the current and former bankers said. So it was Lyme disease that did it! When that happens, everybody loses.

Management 10

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

What we are really talking about is whether it matters where your key decisions are made or where your CEO makes spends most time. HBR Press, April 2011), very few firms are truly global in the sense that their business isn't concentrated in any one spot. But as Pankaj Ghemawat points out in his forthcoming World 3.0 (HBR

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Google acquired Motorola Mobility in 2011 for a better than 60-percent premium, and Brown remained as chair and CEO of Motorola Solutions, overseeing its 23,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue. Amply rewarded for their activism, Icahn and his allies exited the boardroom, but a new activist investor soon came knocking.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

And of course Steve Jobs, the crotchety business genius who co-founded the company in 1979 and drove its recent renaissance, died in 2011. Which raises the question of what if any heed CEO Tim Cook should pay that stock price. Still, even if Apple’s stock price on average makes sense, its week-to-week fluctuations are dizzying.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Such determination is subject to ratification by (and for an award to the CEO would be made by) the [Board's] Compensation & Management Development Committee.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. Remember the pillorying Ivan Seidenberg got from the public markets when he moved Verizon out of cash-generating but slow-growing businesses like phone books?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Almost all of the founders we interviewed provided useful lessons, but three CEOs in particular exemplified each of the qualities that make the founder’s mentality so powerful. At most founder-led companies, CEOs spend all their time in the field and very little behind their desks. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Now, in a New York Times op-ed , Carl Icahn, the billionaire corporate raider turned hedge fund activist, has joined the chorus. The hedge fund activist wants Apple to double its stock price , with massive buybacks as the lever. Pfizer’s CEO, Ian C. Since 2011, Read’s first full year as CEO, Pfizer has expended $44.2

Hedge 8

Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8