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

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? Unemployment remains high.

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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. 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. In 2012 it was $1.9 In 2009 it was $1.3

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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. 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. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. That''s understandable.

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Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 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.

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Hedge Class Video Career 314

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Carl had a Ph.D. 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. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Carl had a Ph.D. All rights reserved.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

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

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

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.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 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

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.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. They could be appropriate for Dimon, but so could a compensation action about future variable comp.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 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

MARCH 15, 2012

Update: Politico's Ben White did have a brief testimonial from hedge fund manager and Goldman client Whitney Tilson this morning.) But Goldman succeeded in managing its risks before and during the financial crisis better than almost any other financial firm. billion of Goldman's $28.81 billion in net revenue.

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Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 12

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 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.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

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

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. This “spikiness” is the key to staying competitive, but it isn’t easy.

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Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8