HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2024

Image courtesy — JP Morgan Chase & Co website ) 3-Day Workweek: Jamie Dimon on Future of Work Dimon’s AI predictions and ponderings on the future of work indicate his strong belief in AI expansion and its applications across industries. It’s a living, breathing thing. It’s a living, breathing thing. It’s going to change.

Hedge 52

Hedge McKinsey Technology Learning-by-Doing 52

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

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 We hope to help resolve these controversies.”.

Osborne 73

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Activist hedge funds have become capital market and financial media darlings. The most comprehensive study of activist hedge fund performance that I have read is by Yvan Allaire at the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations in Montreal, which studies hedge fund campaigns against U.S.

Hedge 8

Hedge TSR Company Sample 8

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 14

Hedge Ethics Incentives Environment 14

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

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. These companies trade on the stock market and are leveraged to the price of the underlying metals. Precious Metal ETFs.

Hedge 119

Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 119

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

It is generally accepted that efficiency represents the optimal, aspirational state for any market. 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. Think about how markets evolve.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 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

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. Banking is not the only industry in which common ownership causes higher prices. These schemes handed their investors huge profits.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 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 12

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 12

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. Instead, U.S.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory? Mostly, though, markets get things right.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 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

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 recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

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

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

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. commercial banking industry. billion in the four largest U.S.

Airlines 8

Airlines Price Hedge Industry 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.” Either explanation is plausible.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 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 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. We have replicated these results in other surveys of C-suite executives at large public pension and sovereign wealth funds. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2022

If you put it in the stock market, there is a chance that your investments could go down; however, there is also a chance they could go up. For example, if you need that money next week to purchase groceries, you may not want to put it in the stock market because you do not know what the market is going to do in the next seven days.

How To 89

How To Hedge Bond Marketing 89

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. It’s an illustration of how, just as the internet didn’t stop at revolutionizing the computer industry, the impacts of advances in synthetic biology won’t be limited to biotech.

Stephenson 13

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

You might think that the best place to locate a new venture would be in an industry hub – say, Silicon Valley for a tech startup, or New York City for a publishing venture. After all, that’s where you’ll make connections, find networking opportunities, and tap into industry expertise. Moral of the story? You can strike out on your own.

Hedge 8

Hedge Meyer Merchandising Price 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. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising 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. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

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. will grow to U.S. $5

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. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. have centered on.

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. Malkiel argues that most of the gigantic growth in asset-management-industry profits since 1980 "is likely to represent a deadweight loss for investors." That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Since say-on-pay hit the U.S. Jensen and Kevin J.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 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

JULY 22, 2013

Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. Lucia Juvenal and Ivan Petrella of the St. So what''s the solution?

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

The peer-to-peer lending industry has attracted significant venture capital, led by the nearly $400 million that Lending Club has raised. And, as The Wall Street Journal reports, the Lending Club IPO will likely be followed by public offerings by similar lenders, some even more focused on the small business credit market.

IPO 8

IPO Due Diligence Credit Scoring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The job market does not account for all social value. On the other hand, some sectors involve “zero sum” endeavors, in which profits come at the expense of other market participants. Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market. Some spillovers are quite large.

Policies 8

Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 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