Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Say-on-pay is part of a big shift in recent years toward giving professional money managers more tools to affect the governance of (and in some cases discipline the managers of) corporations. The idea was to get away from paying CEOs "like bureaucrats," as Michael C.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

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). billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. Wait a while. Why’s that?

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

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 14, 2016

That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. Companies still run by their founders have a certain magic. Robbie Brozin and the insurgent mission.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 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 10

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." 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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. 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

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. Holding people to account for these and related issues is an essential element of a broad approach to risk management inside financial services (and industrial) firms.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 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.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8