The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

They also explain that labor currently accounts for around 40% of the cost of trucking, so there are clear economic incentives to develop an automated option, but with around 3.5 Of course, the study rests on the likely developments in the sector, both from a technological perspective but also a regulatory perspective.

Osborne 73

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. (To Remember “smile or your fired”.

Organization 186

Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Stock Market has always been based on knowing more than the general public does about market direction and the industry, company and corporate leadership of those stocks you invest in. No one knows how much cheating of this kind occurs, but regulators have developed good tools for spotting it. Success in the U.S.

Marketing 95

Marketing Hedge Tips Magazine 95

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Winners, on the other hand, define the fundamental identity of the company by developing a clear idea of what they do best and how they create value for customers. Many successful companies, like Procter & Gamble and The Coca-Cola Company, develop a clearly defined… . As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

Strategy 178

Strategy Short-term Competitive Advantage Fixed Assets 178

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, investors can use physical precious metals as a hedge against currency devaluation or inflation. These assets can also be used as a store of value and a potential hedge against geopolitical risks. Both can be a hedge against inflation. These investments are also a good hedge against inflation.

Hedge 119

Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 119

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We all know developing a personal brand is valuable, since a strong reputation can put you on the radar for exciting career opportunities. Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune. ” So how can you, as a woman, navigate this conundrum and develop a robust personal brand?

Brand 14

Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

And yet, this aggregate number adds up positive and negative weather impacts, and masks the true extent to which abnormal weather harms individual businesses operating in utilities, retail, food processing, transportation, and construction, among other industries. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the risks vary considerably between industries.

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

How Different Industries Might Fare. companies in the automotive, agricultural, and textile industries by as much as one percentage point (assuming no pass-through of higher costs to consumers). Companies in these industries tend to rely heavily on imported parts and raw materials from Mexico or Canada traded at NAFTA terms.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

These developments in the retirement system change who is in control of Corporate America. Banking is not the only industry in which common ownership causes higher prices. Does the finding of anticompetitive effects in a couple of industries mean that we should ring alarm bells across the economy?

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The news is all good for customers, but it makes planning for the industry players much more difficult.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. The industry was born in its current form, however, when the first venture capital firms were founded in the middle of the twentieth century.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. In short, we need the world’s biggest investors to connect with the world’s nimblest investment-technology startups. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Hedge against uncertainty. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As one industry insider told us, “I am in the business of making money, I don’t care who you are, as long as you can help me in that goal.” As one investment professional told us, “When I see a name like Mary, it sticks out because there are so few [women] in this industry.”

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. Except that the performance that they’re rewarding is industry performance, not company performance. public companies.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. From surveys of 82 work teams representing a wide range of organizations and industries in eastern China, we concluded that efforts to persuade employees to exhibit above-and-beyond behaviors at work initially led to good citizenship behaviors. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Licensing 8

Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2018

As I listened to him describe the situation, it became clear that the failure was related to his company and outside industry factors, rather than to any misstep on his part. People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error.

How To 12

How To Learning-by-Doing CEO Hedge 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Startups such as Wealthfront, Personal Capital, and Betterment launched robo-advisors as industry disruptors, and incumbents, such as Schwab’s (Intelligent Advisor), Vanguard (Personal Advisor Services), Morgan Stanley and BlackRock have joined the fray with their own hybrid machine/advisor solutions.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

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. Less so for financial institutions or healthcare companies. SASB uses the U.S.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. Which is why the auto industry’s reaction to Tesla’s announcement on March 31 of its Model 3 is so strange. They can’t hedge, like Ford is doing.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Each presents distinct opportunities for profit and competitive advantage, from product improvements to new revenue streams to possible industry game changers. ” Their goal is to develop personalized strategies for each client based on far more data and analytic horsepower than any financial adviser could marshal alone.

Company 9

Company Insurance Content Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In fact, the Christmas tree industry takes in about $1 billion annually, so the effort and cash are probably worth it. But according to a recent study by Development Dimensions International, vague feedback about expectations and duties during the interview process leads to higher turnover. Don’t hedge or hesitate. Pretty cool.

Hedge 8

Hedge Project Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

These “ superbosses ,” as I called them, spanned dozens of industries and included legendary figures such as fast casual restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, packaged foods titan Michael Miles, tech mogul Larry Ellison, hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson, media icon Oprah Winfrey, and a host of others. Julian Robertson did.

Delegation 8

Delegation Real Estate Micromanagement Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves. CIOs should mingle with vendors, customers, users, technologists, regulators, venture capitalists, and academics.

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

A unit of a company that sells janitorial supplies to industrial customers spent years trying to develop a new cleaning agent that was more effective and "better smelling" than its previous offering. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Modify mindset.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

The conflict between the IMF and Malaysia was a sign of a tipping point in the developed economies, shifting from a world of capital scarcity to one of abundance. Since the great industrial fortunes were made, there have been Rothschilds or Rockefellers who possessed sufficient funds of their own to speculate in relatively narrow markets.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners’ flagship fund, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They never released the product.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

For example, this includes the replacement of Saudi oil-veteran Ali Al Naimi as Minister of Petroleum, a position critical to world oil market dynamics, with Khalid Al Falih, Minister of the newly created department of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources.

Politics 8

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. But businesses and professions that have been around for years tend to develop codes or ethics or at least norms of acceptable behavior. hedge funds? scam artists?

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

However, the current meager market share held by online lenders masks immense potential: Morgan Stanley estimates the total addressable market for online SME lenders is $280 billion and predicts the industry will grow at a 47% annualized rate through 2020.

Banking 10

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Well, maybe not quite as a cause : Drexler, the organization’s head of investors industries, takes pains to note that “we’re not trying to be the industry association for impact investors.” So here’s the money management industry. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Global leaders pride themselves on having many connections across industries and sectors. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar. Developing Mindful Leaders for the C-Suite. Playing golf with Jack Nicklaus. Smiling with President Obama at a state dinner.

Ethics 8

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Rather than pestering prospective customers with pushy e-mails, he thought companies should use blogs and other social media to attract people who were already researching and shopping in the industry. It feels like we're hedging our bets rather than placing one.". Serge was their lead developer. They want growth. Dirk asked.

Case Study 15

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15