Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And considering how tough it is to survive in today’s business environment, that’s very bad news for your company. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. The first step starts with you. Carl had a Ph.D.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The “turnaround plan” recently announced by McDonald’s includes an aggressive program to manipulatively boost its stock price via stock buybacks, an activity that has become the major focus of its corporate strategy over the past decade. ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 The winners. The winners.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Jarrow, Kchia, and Potter then plugged in LinkedIn's minute-by-minute stock price movements during its first week of trading. What should executives do when their company is caught up in a bubble? It's not just an asset-price bubble; it's an asset bubble supported by borrowing that uses those very assets as collateral.

Company 14

Company Finance Price IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

The Stones have always been aggressive in setting ticket prices, and it appears they''ve pushed too hard this time. In fact, I wrote my PhD dissertation on rock concert ticket prices. The situation faced by the Rolling Stones — sagging sales due to high prices — is one that all companies are susceptible to.

Price 8

Price Discount Brand Merchandising 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And considering how tough it is to survive in today’s business environment, that’s very bad news for your company. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. The first step starts with you. Carl had a Ph.D.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Morgan made a fortune by buying up shares of competing railroad companies with other people’s money. Similarly, Gilded Age “voting trusts” pooled money from individuals to buy shares in competing companies. Yet the unfortunate side effect of uncompetitive markets is that consumers pay higher prices.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

There are many ways to put data to work, and companies, and especially their leaders, are advised to explore as many of them as they can. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. In working with companies on getting more from their data, I advise managers to explore seven methods to put data to work.

Company 10

Company Insurance Content Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 Trian announced that with its help, GE could look forward to a stock price in the $40–$50 range by 2017, and threatened a proxy battle unless GE put Trian cofounder Ed Garten on the board. GE stock was trading at $25.47

TSR 9

TSR Company IPO Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Shareholder value, in turn, is typically measure by share price — meaning share price today, not share price next week or next decade. The problem is, the only information these investors see is share price, so that's the only thing they focus. This powerful minority is activist hedge funds. Compensation.

Long-term 11

Long-term Hedge Strategy Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, Google, Amazon, and similar companies are “data-opolies.” ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. That influence comes in part from data. In the U.S.,

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

While larger companies may be able to hedge the costs associated with key inputs and smooth out any cyclical costs, smaller businesses may struggle to achieve this. Price increases ripple through the supply chain – It’s almost inevitable that consumers will push back and demand will fall at some point.

Supply Chain 115

Supply Chain Charan Short-term Long-term 115

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In content or tone, they diverge from the voice your company is trying to project online, and possibly expose you to a backlash from clients, customers or employees. But that kind of risk management comes at too high a price.

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Media Price Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They work like any other traditional hedging instruments except that the index on which they are settled is a weather index. Our research has focused on how businesses can manage weather-related risks, including estimating potential losses and their probability, and potentially using financial instruments to hedge against that risk.

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

based companies. However, there is a high level of uncertainty about the ultimate outcome and consequences for companies, in part because the effect could be offset or aggravated by how currency rates adjust. Successful companies thrive in uncertainty by incorporating change into their strategy. political upheaval.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. So, if the company misses its quarterly earnings target, they sell their shares. Some companies take matters into their own hands.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

” On the other side, noted economist and hedge fund adviser Larry Summers cautions that reforming “quarterly capitalism” would risk driving us toward “Japan’s keiretsu system, which insulated corporate management from share price pressure by tying large companies together.” A Big Red Herring.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

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. Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits. Carl Icahn is at it again. corporate taxation.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

He blamed the industry’s notorious low profitability on the “kamikaze pricing tactics of certain carriers” and vowed to not invest in this “death trap” sector again. ” Some of that profit is the result of innovative pricing models. Warren Buffett got burned with an airline investment in the 1990s.

Airlines 8

Airlines Price Hedge Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We’re surrounded by people (and companies) exaggerating their skills or knowledge or features — and we’re often guilty of it ourselves. After one hedge fund I know had a horrendous quarter, the managers wrote to clients, saying that they were concentrating 70% of the entire fund into only five stocks.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Marketing Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

He was calling to get my consent to sell the company for $31 million. But after telling me the sale price, he went into a carefully structured description of how that $31 million was going to be split up. Only one buyer had come forward and if our company didn’t do this deal, it was at risk of running out of cash.

Hedge 8

Hedge Bond CEO Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Consider “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap, infamous for his profit-at-any-price approach to corporate turnarounds. He left a trail of failed companies behind him, including the iconic Sunbeam. Companies should be managed much more holistically. We saved the company from being wound up — barely.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Companies are not squarely to blame for the anger and frustration that have so warped this presidential primary season. companies, but their wrongdoing affected millions of U.S. based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal. Nor are they entirely innocent. These are not U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company. 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). Sell stock in the company. Wait a while. Why’s that?

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies? of the company.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. Yet in retrospect it was far better to exit early rather than struggle ( as Dell and HP have ) with pricing pressures, commoditization, and supply chain issues. These businesses now make up more than half the company.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Efficient markets, which feature many buyers and sellers and perfect information flowing between them, determine the “right price” and hence allocate society’s resources optimally. The shadow of an efficient market is increased price volatility — quite the opposite of what we expect from efficient markets.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

Sales of iPhones, however, were a little lower than predicted , and the company’s revenue forecasts struck some observers as underwhelming. In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. What shareholders have been saying, in overwhelming numbers, is yes! That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

First, making significant amounts of your own power at zero variable cost is more than nice; it’s a hedge against volatility and smooths out expenses, which makes business planning easier. They create direct (and indirect) value for the company aside from the shared benefit of a stable climate.

CEO 8

CEO ROI Environment Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I kicked off the discussion by arguing that many companies ought to start in the middle. Companies need to understand those markets at a granular level, and recognize that winning in those markets will be harder than they think. How should companies hedge against the practice of copying your products as you go into those markets?

Marketing 13

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Why, then, do company boards and shareholders of most firms approve those packages? Except that the performance that they’re rewarding is industry performance, not company performance. public companies. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. This effect is even more pronounced for CEOs alone.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Leading companies are learning that sourcing renewable energy for data centers is a low-cost way to demonstrate commitment to global climate goals while adding reliability and predictability to energy consumption. Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The logic, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) and banks like HSBC, is this: as the world migrates away from carbon-based fuels, trillions of barrels of oil and billions of tons of coal — the assets sitting on the books of energy companies — will become “stranded,” or worthless. Let’s quickly look at each.

NGO 9

NGO Energy Morale Price 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The plan is for hedge fund Standard General, RadioShack’s lender and largest shareholder, to buy up to 2,400 of RadioShack’s roughly 4,000 stores and team up with Sprint to transform 1,750 of the acquired stores into cobranded Sprint-RadioShack locations. Joining forces could breathe new life into both brands.

Wireless 8

Wireless Brand Due Diligence Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Here’s what he told Kestenbaum: “If you interpret the word ‘bubble’ to mean, ‘I can predict when prices are gonna go down,’ you can’t do it.”. Fama is surely right that nobody can reliably predict exactly when prices are gonna go down. They are, as paraphrased by Kestenbaum: Rapidly increasing prices. That’s pretty good.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8