The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2022

Hedging bets. For example, Steve Wozniak remained an employee at Hewlett-Packard long after co-founding Apple, Pierre Omidyar launched eBay while working for the software development company General Magic, and, with the help of investors, Henry Ford founded the Detroit Automobile Group while employed by the Edison Illuminating Company.

Entrepreneur 125

Entrepreneur Hedge Long-term Commitment 125

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

Thoughts on Charity, Foreign Aid and Market Incentives - Tanzania. He worked in a firm that supported fixed income investments in emerging markets. One of his main tasks was to structure a hedging derivative that negated foreign exchange risks so that Microfinance institutions could take safer loans from the developed world.

Incentives 171

Incentives Marketing Microfinance Entrepreneur 171

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. So, why would you play in the market when you know the game is rigged? Especially in volatile markets, the temptation to cheat is fierce.

Marketing 95

Marketing Hedge Tips Magazine 95

Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In this case, you can either find new markets where you might compete or try to defend and extend the ultimate conclusion to give you time to create a better ending. The best strategy when facing high degrees of uncertainty is to hedge and build options for the future.”. He calls this scenario A New Day is Dawning.

Innovation 283

Innovation Company Construction Creativity 283

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.

Disintermediation 130

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Here is a simple explanation of it.

Uncertainty 308

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

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 78

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 78

HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better. Another major difference in outlook is the government’s role in market forces. It says there will be a similar acceleration of M&A and nationalization of companies post-covid.

Trends 105

Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Too many business leaders are preoccupied with the next answer to growth and find themselves stretched thin – trying to play in too many disparate markets and pursuing multiple strategies and directions that undermine rather than reinforce each other. As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

Strategy 178

Strategy Short-term Competitive Advantage Fixed Assets 178

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The vast majority of leaders who thrive develop calm-under-fire. Here, I use the labels of the indispensable ‘Pixar Pitch’ to summarize Salman’s story: ACT I: Once upon a time, I was an analyst at a Boston-based hedge fund. Jeremey Donovan is Group Vice President of Marketing at Gartner Inc., If you believe, they will believe.

Storytelling 278

Storytelling Video Hedge Career 278

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. He also capitalized on the mistake to develop new methods that can be used to achieve desired goals. economy was in a bull market. That’s the effect success has on people. With a net worth of $18.7 Be open-minded.

Hedge 51

Hedge Leadership Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 51

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners , a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to Apple’s board of directors that may change the future of activist investing. Tim Ellis/Getty Images. But it is reportedly not alone.

Hedge 8

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 8

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You establish your goal (where you want to go) and your position (where you are now), and then develop your strategy (how to get from your position to your goal in the most efficient and effective way). Phase 2: Establish Your Position & Goal At CO2 Coaching, we use GPSing (Goal, Position, Strategy) to guide decision-making.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” That requires us to invest in developing both current and future skills. Louis to develop a customized, cyber skills program for employees. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The topic — part of a series on innovation sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development Board and coordinated by Harvard Business Review — was "What's the Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets: Target Customers at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid?". billion by 2030. Reaching this vast middle won't be easy, I said.

Marketing 12

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value. The leadership ratings index we have developed has two dimensions, or domains: individual and organizational.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

Case Study 15

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

Case Study 12

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Yet the unfortunate side effect of uncompetitive markets is that consumers pay higher prices. Index funds have given millions of people relatively low-cost access to the stock market. These developments in the retirement system change who is in control of Corporate America. These schemes handed their investors huge profits.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. Armed with a hypothesis that the stock market was undervaluing digital, we sought to create the largest known repository of digital data on U.S. Southwest has 13% of the U.S.

Airlines 8

Airlines Hedge Metrics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

producers to lower their prices in foreign markets, raising demand for U.S. Companies that develop a strategy for these uncertainties will be able to pivot faster than the competition when details about a new trade agreement become clear. Options and hedges. Any export subsidy would allow U.S. Three Types of Action to Consider.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 8

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. If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. What about innovation?

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Or at least the market''s. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. It also doesn''t follow from Bebchuk, Brav, and Jiang''s evidence that more hedge fund activism would necessarily be a good thing. I''m not joining in.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In the course of researching my new book Entrepreneurial You , I discovered three strategies that allowed leading online marketers to build trusting, respect-based relationships with their customers. I was intrigued by these stories because Internet marketers are often derided by critics due to some practitioners’ scammy tactics.

Audience 8

Audience Video Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. Capital markets work best when information is promptly and widely available to all.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality.

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

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. It was developed by Japan and South Korea in the 1980s and is used widely by emerging markets from Brazil to India.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

Compliance 9

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Neustar’s MarketShare software makes it possible for customers to measure the effects of their marketing programs and compare them to other firms. At the same time that data mirrors and scoring have emerged in the corporate world, capital markets are becoming increasingly interested in the analysis of alternative data sets.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. ” Don’t just come up with a clever notion; make sure people actually want it before you spend a lot of money developing it.

Webinar 10

Webinar How To Audience Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

In fact, each of these markets had achieved a much higher level of customer interest (and frustration with the existing offerings) before Apple came in with better designed products. A careful analysis of the facts suggests not: Apple is rarely the first entrant.

Creativity 13

Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. A key constraining resource in traditional venture is a VC investor's time.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14