The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Interestingly however, they believe that a blockchain-empowered timebank can help to hedge against the growing tide of AI-driven technologies that they believe will depersonalize communities.

Banking 70

Banking Hedge Proposal Bond 70

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. Remember “smile or your fired”.

Organization 186

Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

” Given the scale of the sector, the researchers speculate that automation is likely to result in a few hundred thousand jobs being lost, although they hedge this by stating that many of these jobs are badly paid and generally unpleasant in nature. “We

Osborne 78

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 78

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s a narrative that paints a picture of investors backing perhaps a single startup in an industry, but research from Wharton highlights how VCs increasingly hedge their bets across a number of startups, and what’s more, this practice actually improves the efficiency of innovation in that sector.

Efficiency 128

Efficiency Innovation Venture Capitalist Hedge 128

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. 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.

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. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. They reveal how fragile the status quo is, and how malleable the future can be.

Stephenson 13

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. Trends like robotics and AI have unpredictable consequence, and timelines, so it’s hard to predict when and if your industry will take a hit. Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. Indeed, there are simply fewer jobs to go around these days.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

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. The industry was indeed unprofitable for decades. ” Some of that profit is the result of innovative pricing models.

Airlines 8

Airlines Price Hedge Industry 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

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 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 are supply-side architectural innovations.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

While noting that this doesn’t seem to be the case with respect to the public — both the computer and internet industries poll favorably — she documents at length the rise of “tech hate” among journalists and other commentators, including HBR contributor Umair Haque: “Tech is something like the new Wall St.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 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. Innovate products, services, and processes. Hedge funds and used car dealers use such data to create and leverage asymmetries. Infomediate. Exploit asymmetries.

Company 9

Company Insurance Content Policies 9

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

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. What if the adviser is misguided or doesn't tell the whole truth?

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Research by Sylvia Ann Hewlett at the Center for Talent Innovation shows that cultivating your personal brand is one of the best ways to attract a sponsor — and professionals with sponsors are 23% more likely than their peers to be promoted. Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune.

Brand 14

Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple. How then can a new front-runner better manage market expectations and also strive to be more innovative?

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. Further, Nike was ranked the #7 most innovative company by Fast Company in 2014 , and the 13 th most admired company by Forbes magazine.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. Each of these organizations looked to the small, exciting platforms startups in its industry to help broaden its products, capabilities, and customers. Build it yourself.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. To mainstream economists the Glass-Steagall Act that separated the banking and securities industries looked like a competition-restricting, innovation-damping anachronism.

Banking 14

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 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.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Jim,” as he is known to all, not only did pioneering work in mathematics; he also founded Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that relied on scientists to make predictions and trade in global markets. BONUS BITS Countering Intuition Has ''Disruptive Innovation'' Run Its Course?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. In times of change, businesses have to adapt and innovate. hedge funds? To survive and thrive, the reasoning goes, you often have to expand or change the definition of your business.

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

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.

Delegation 8

Delegation Real Estate Micromanagement Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

The idea that economists hedge their bets or disagree constantly with one another is a feature of the discipline. Put simply, the new coupon industry is following a path common to so many new markets, with a leader with initial success, a flurry of entrants (at last count some 400 competitors) and, finally, a big shakeout.

Retail 15

Retail Discount Hedge Airlines 15

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 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

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 9

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

2, behind the late Steve Jobs, with an industry-adjusted shareholder return of 12,266% during his tenure. Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. In Morten T. How has Bezos done this?

Training 8

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

For a country that isn’t export-oriented, and whose major industry, tourism, relies on stability, having its own currency is not much of a solution to economic woes. What happened was that the EU and taxpayers got dodgy Greek debt to help EU (but non-Greek) banks and hedge funds, which duly made a killing.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. To get to the future, you must build it day by day. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution. Vijay Govindarajan.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Having pioneered the smartphone industry with its Blackberry, RIM is dangerously adrift. Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Alas, during industry turmoil muddling through may be impossible.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. And like any industry, the ICO arena has had its fair share of outright scams, pump and dumps, and blatant Ponzi schemes. Distributed Database.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 9