N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Retailers face several challenges as they enter the 2011 holiday season. For example, lower income shoppers appear willing to pay more now to hedge future costs. Is the category a hedge, an investment with a greater benefit payoff or a cost to be managed? This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail.

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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

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.

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Hedge Class Video Career 314

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. 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. He reportedly took home compensation of $1.7 billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. What''s more, the asset management industry — in particular the alternative-asset subset of hedge funds and private equity — has exported many of its pay practices into the corporate sector. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013.

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Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. The soaring U.S. output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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.

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Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Almost as soon as Ron Johnson was fired by JC Penney, blame for the retailer’s annus horribilis shifted to board member and billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, who had lured Johnson to Penney from Apple in 2011. Now Ackman is out too , and Fraser P.

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Fraser Management Hedge Simon 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

HBR Press, April 2011), very few firms are truly global in the sense that their business isn't concentrated in any one spot. British clearers were also a license to print money back then, so although growth prospects were limited, they made a good, cash-generating strategic hedge.

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Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. All rights reserved.

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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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. All rights reserved.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Tech-world denizen Jesper Andersen tweeted a similar sentiment: “Change ‘startup’ to ‘hedge fund,’ ‘ecstasy’ to ‘cocaine’, and ‘douche-bag’ to ‘douche bag’ and you too can see SF is just another Wall St.” Mostly white mostly dudes getting rich by making stuff of limited social purpose and impact,” economist Umair Haque argued on Twitter.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

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.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

When acclaimed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones revealed his opinion that women become much less effective as stock traders or investors once they have children, he was, in a sense, suggesting that the distraction of motherhood—a distinctly feminine condition—exceeds that of other attention-siphoning activities.

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Presenteeism Hedge Report Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 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. It is in a sector where seemingly healthy, hugely profitable corporations (Nokia, Blackberry) have been effectively wiped out within the space of a couple of years.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 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.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Some news stories say Dimon generally approved the specific strategy at issue here and perhaps the broader risk-taking by this risk management office (beyond more cautious hedging of risk). Ina Drew was in the bank's High Five in the proxy statement, with more than $15 million in total comp in 2010 and 2011 (cash, bonus, stock awards).

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Update: Politico's Ben White did have a brief testimonial from hedge fund manager and Goldman client Whitney Tilson this morning.) In 2011 — a bad year for trading — investment banking generated just $4.6 billion of Goldman's $28.81 billion in net revenue.

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Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

” Many of them are in China, but there are also hedge funds and bitcoin investment funds who hold massive amounts of bitcoin. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). It’s now worth approximately $1,1200 per bitcoin.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. Understandably, they want to hedge against unpredictability and rapid change. It is not a hedge. Little that Steve Jobs did was.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The pressure on the company by the investing community (among others) was so severe that it eventually split into two, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions in January of 2011. 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?

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

To make everybody happy, to serve every need, to hedge every bet, many CEOs spread resources around democratically as their companies grow — and they lose the spikiness on the cost sheet that is the telltale sign not of profligacy but of focus. 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. Since 2011, Read’s first full year as CEO, Pfizer has expended $44.2 billion in dividends. .

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Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8