Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. Hedge fund activists loom large in the discussion of short-termism. primary season.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 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. Drew quickly retired after the losses, and Iksil and Macris are, according to news reports, leaving the bank. Its purpose: to remedy unfair windfalls.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

These attacks are increasing in number, even as companies increase investments in security technologies, improve their capabilities, and tighten policies. Unfortunately, though, it's all too easy to grind your business to a halt with doctrinaire security policies.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. Another hedge-fund activist, David Einhorn, was then playing that role). Carl Icahn is at it again.

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Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

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. So paying bank CEOs mostly in stock is a recipe for a financial crisis. But it''s not clear that their approach yields better results.

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Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

But almost none of these institutional-investment giants have any policies in place for monitoring or engaging with the startups who are creating next-generation investment technologies. How is this state of affairs possible? When this happens, the value creation will be substantial.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Soros was by then known as "the man who broke the Bank of England" because he had reputedly made more than a billion dollars speculating against the pound in 1992. But in general, prior to the development of a sophisticated banking system, capital was invested in illiquid assets, meaning tangible, productive ones. dollar deposits."

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Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. Paul Garbett for HBR. We show that this position is supported in cases of financially immaterial ESG proposals.

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Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Nonetheless, a sustainable and growing consumer economy depends on service sector reforms, especially in the banking sector, to meet the needs of lower cap private-sector borrowers at the base of the pyramid. In one area, however, deep uncertainties exist which must cause even the most pro-China investors to want to hedge their bets.

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Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story. Noble: With family offices, there is this intergenerational play.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

When my mother graduated from college in 1972, she interviewed at an investment bank where a manager told her that for certain positions, women were interviewed but never hired. An employee of a large bank shared that any future women analyst hires should be “unattractive.” Cláudio Policarpo/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Finance Policies Banking CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Visa and MasterCard are both exploring uses for similar technology to improve the way they process payments, while Ripple is lowering the cost of transactions between banks and other financial institutions through its global settlement network. But the practical applications for blockchain technology go way beyond financial assets.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

For the past several years, EU politicians have been locked in shortsighted and often self-defeating policies for bailing out troubled euro zone countries. Sure, the country may have a struggling banking sector and stock market, but it also has promising long-term growth prospects because of its natural gas discoveries.

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GDP Bond How To Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

In the second , Wall Street is capturing value rather than creating it; as economist Tyler Cowen once put it : “It’s as if the major banks have tapped a hole in the social till and they are drinking from it with a straw.” ” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates.

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Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

But not the economic policies of the empire, since British control in that area had not been so onerous. The new commercial mindset helped unite the previously fractured colonies into a national economy, with open state borders and a growing network of banks. Yet a burst of entrepreneurial activity led to a jump in productivity.

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Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

This administration featured enthusiastic embrace of the TARP bailouts of banks that protected their shareholders first and foremost and the continued low interest policies that favor capital owners. Of course, the argument can be made that these policies help labor too, by avoiding a recession/depression.

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CIO Hedge CEO Policies 9