Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2018

In Billions, he is taking on Axelrod, a (corrupt) hedge fun tycoon. A great insight into how the advertising industry operates combined with enough fictional drama to keep you binge watching those episodes. Set in New York, it tells the story of the U.S. I Give It a Year.

Entrepreneur 51

Entrepreneur Gordon Supply Chain Advertising 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. In the UK, no less than 18 weather-related profit warnings were issued by industry leaders. They work like any other traditional hedging instruments except that the index on which they are settled is a weather index.

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

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 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

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. When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

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. In short, it is an Android phone that wants to stand out more as a Samsung made and operated phone.

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 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. You want it separate but connected.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

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

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 13

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

In general, organized criminals are trying to steal things of high value, and one of the most valuable industries, in terms of cost, is health care. They might impersonate a bank, saying, “Hey, I know you’re about to go and get an operation, don’t forget to transfer some money by clicking here,” or whatever.

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 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. This ultimately pushes their stock prices higher than their industry peers. In our version, we sought to identify only companies that are design leaders.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

It has spurred the growth of an entire industry that exists only to exploit volatility: the hedge fund business. Meanwhile, there are all sorts of good folks operating in use-driven markets, producing goods and services that we use on a daily basis. That dark side has not gone unnoticed.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 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 10

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Herbalife After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power The New York Times If you’re looking for the corporate-governance version of House of Cards, this is probably the closest you''ll get (though there''s no strategic murdering here, as far as I know). BONUS BITS Updates on a Few Select Industries This Is What a Job in the U.S.''s

McGregor 8

McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 8

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

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. Owens, however, operated out of an ethic of responsibility – the ends were not enough to justify misleading his workers or the press.

Ethics 8

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. We’d like to propose a solution. What – or who – is a Qualt?

Reputation 8

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 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.” Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. So here’s the money management industry.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

military operations in Vietnam. 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.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

military operations in Vietnam. 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.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. Food waste starts at farms in the value chain. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

But in the process the new rule also spawned a whole new industry of front-runners called high-frequency traders. It definitely succeeded in throttling the specialists: the news this week that Goldman Sachs is hoping to find a buyer to pay $30 million for its specialist arm, which it bought for $6.5

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

But with the coming of Big Data, we are going to be operating very much out of our old, familiar ballparks. It's a vast improvement over having the data locked away in industry silos where nobody even knows it's there, or what's being done with it. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? The "Human Understanding" Problem. More >>.

Hedge 8

Hedge System Health Care Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Holding people to account for these and related issues is an essential element of a broad approach to risk management inside financial services (and industrial) firms. Instead, the problems here involve, at a minimum, outsized losses and material harm to reputation.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. 2, behind the late Steve Jobs, with an industry-adjusted shareholder return of 12,266% during his tenure. Once investors stopped giving it free money, the company quickly cut back on its investments and its losses. In Morten T. How has Bezos done this?

Training 8

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

We determined the weighting of each motive by conducting regressions between each motive and performance across industries, and then simplified to build a simple metric that ranges from -100 to 100. Take for example the airline industry. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. He makes his own decisions," I hedged.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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. lawyers, accountants).

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. The three-box framework has challenged us to redesign the planning process, which would allow us to brainstorm Box 2 and Box 3 nonlinear initiatives in addition to undertaking Box 1 operational excellence initiatives. To be sure, the present is vitally important.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 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 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. GE has its strengths in the management of large-scale industries.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. Active investors such as hedge funds seek to outperform the market and index providers.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

But such expectations are unrealistic in many industries. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust. Such a pattern is well established in the pharmaceutical industry as large established firms partner with smaller biotech firms. Such investors are not too concerned with stable earnings.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8