The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 29, 2023

This affords them greater opportunities to earn in different ways, while the diversity also hedges against any risks of economic downturns. Similar findings emerged when the researchers looked at the film industry, with women often pigeonholed as, for instance, a cinematographer and therefore only ever offered these roles.

Career 122

Career Hedge Commitment Film 122

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2020

After all, with so many happy customers under your belt, there’s no reason to deprive potential new clients of your skillfully manicured lawns and pristinely trimmed hedges. Staying in touch with customers and employees alike is vitally important to any business, but especially when it comes to the lawn care industry.

Quality 75

Quality Software Efficiency Hedge 75

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

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Hedge funds are playing the role of Wall Street villain again. Then came the November 22, 2010 raids of three hedge fund headquarters by FBI agents who seized documents and confiscated BlackBerries. Now authorities are serving subpoenas on other, larger hedge and mutual funds. This time, the charge is rampant insider trading.

Hedge 15

Hedge Ethics Incentives Environment 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

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 7, 2011

As the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 513 points last Thursday, then gyrated wildly on Friday, all of Wall Street seemed to be asking the same question: What the heck is going on? Over the last three weeks or so, hedge fund managers have been betting that stocks will fall further. Why, then, all these crazy swings?

Hedge 95

Hedge Wilde Price Follow-up 95

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

By Guest Authors from Booz & Company : Partner, Paul Leinwand and Managing Director, Cesare Mainardi . Emulating competitors and pursuing industry benchmarks rather than seeking differentiation. Hedging bets with multiple options, which reinforces complexity and raises costs.

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. You should also consider a broader wealth-management strategy.

Hedge 122

Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 122

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2018

In Billions, he is taking on Axelrod, a (corrupt) hedge fun tycoon. Ever felt like your previous management was a little ‘out of touch’ when it came to the day-to-day running of the company? This show is also great for getting to grips with supply chain management as well as the basics of product design. I Give It a Year.

Entrepreneur 51

Entrepreneur Gordon Supply Chain Advertising 51

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. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts.

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Senior leaders who have learned to manage in uncertainty focus on the few risks that matter most. 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). political upheaval.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. This collective flood of individual investment has turned asset management companies into ginormous shareholders. BlackRock alone manages about $4.7 Take a look at this table. trillion in assets.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

While wage inequality between firms appears to be growing across geographies and without regard to worker productivity, it does vary by industry and pay grade. isn’t just about making it to the top; you have to make it in the right industry and even then in the right firm. In some ways, though, hotel workers are not the typical case.

Bryson 12

Bryson Hedge Company Real Estate 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When last year's massive earthquake hit Japan, the effect on electronics production was severe, and it also resulted in extended business disruptions for many in the automotive industry. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I recently encountered an illustrative case of overclaiming that could translate easily across industries. 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

JULY 14, 2017

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. During the bailout, financial firms, including hedge funds, were nowhere to be found.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

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 15

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

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 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The founding group of managers, including the CEO, took sweat equity in the business. He began by telling me that things weren’t going as well as management had hoped and that they had determined the company needed to be sold to a major player in their industry. But of course, it’s not just hedge fund managers.

Hedge 8

Hedge Bond CEO Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. For instance, startups might be able to access some of the $2 trillion that giant institutional investors currently allocate to hedge funds and divert it to their own growth.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. 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.” Tooga/Getty Images.

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. 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. CEOs get paid handsomely. public companies. public companies.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 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. Done well, it can improve a company’s sustainability in addition to its performance.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Say-on-pay is part of a big shift in recent years toward giving professional money managers more tools to affect the governance of (and in some cases discipline the managers of) corporations. But it''s far from clear that professional money managers have what it takes to play the role of effective watchdog. Jensen and Kevin J.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? It’s clear that robo-advisors and AI play an important and growing role in the financial services industry, but a question remains. And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry? Analytics are growing in every business function and industry.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. insider trading by hedge funds. have centered on. Bharara has not filed charges (yet?)

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 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. In working with companies on getting more from their data, I advise managers to explore seven methods to put data to work. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Infomediate.

Company 11

Company Insurance Content Policies 11

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Convincing employees to go above and beyond the call of duty may be the epitome of personnel management. How talent management is changing. Surveying 180 teams of employees and managers at U.S. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Licensing 8

Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Depending on the industry, a sharp MBA who’s a scratch golfer may well have a leg up in a job interview or sales meeting. Indeed, I know Silicon Valley and (admittedly younger) hedge fund quant teams who bond and boost morale through their Minecraft bouts. Trust me, these folks will not be golfing at Torrey Pines.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Game Theory Bond Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 hbr staff/stan honda/Getty Images. billion equity investment in GE stock, one that made it a top 10 shareholder. GE stock was trading at $25.47 at the time of announcement, with a dividend of $0.92

TSR 10

TSR Company IPO Hedge 10

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 14

How To Learning-by-Doing CEO Hedge 14

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. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully. Traditionally the industry encourages a solo approach to evaluating risk; at Fidelity Investments, where I worked for over two decades, each fund is assigned to one person who makes all the buying and selling decisions.

Tversky 8

Tversky Kahneman Hedge Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. Build it yourself.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8