Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology. But right now that’s not happening. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

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

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. So consider leaving the latest white papers, industry rundowns, and management hot takes at the office.

Stephenson 13

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 13

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

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 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

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s tempting to think that venture capitalists are taking punts on particular technologies in the hope that the few investments that reach the big time adequately compensate for the many that wither on the vine. The projects were collectively backed by 764 different VC firms.

Efficiency 124

Efficiency Innovation Venture Capitalist Hedge 124

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

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

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. According to Mills’ research, “most [peer-to-peer lenders] are large institutional investors such as hedge funds and investment banks.” Finance Small/medium business Technology'

IPO 8

IPO Due Diligence Credit Scoring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? 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.

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

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. Quite the contrary.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM 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

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.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 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. This becomes a profit stream for the issuers and for Quandl , which aggregates this data across the industry and packages it for investors. Infomediate. Exploit asymmetries.

Company 9

Company Insurance Content Policies 9

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

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Rehabilitate a misfit.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

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

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. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Technology is an important enabler here too.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. Since the great industrial fortunes were made, there have been Rothschilds or Rockefellers who possessed sufficient funds of their own to speculate in relatively narrow markets.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

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

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

Banking 10

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. And while the new electrified vehicles market is growing fast, it’ll be many years until those technologies dominate. The Guilt or Enlightenment: Moral Suasion .

NGO 8

NGO Energy Morale Price 8

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. But imagine if you had to plan the demise of a whole country.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 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

MARCH 11, 2011

The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. hedge funds? I'm fixated on it because the blurring of lines is among the defining characteristics of the business environment of the past couple of decades. scam artists?

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Desktop 3D printers are a classic new-market disruption: fundamental changes in technology allow much cheaper, more accessible, and worse performing products to become available to new customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 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. Ethics Finance Technology' 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

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. Recent attacks on OPM and a London hedge fund show two different ways that cybersecurity is so difficult right now: First, even the U.S. What are cybercriminals usually after?

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 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

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 13

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 14

Retail Discount Hedge Airlines 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I Doom and Gloom. Still Henry refused to respond.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

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? This is a major step in making Big Data safer and more transparent, as well as more liquid and available, because people can now choose to share data. More >>.

Hedge 8

Hedge System Health Care Transportation 8

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. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Our aim was to prove the link between digital strength and shareholder value, and do so in a way that passes the rigorous standards of hedge funds. A full explanation of our methodology and the rigorous process of residualization that was required of our hedge fund clients can be found here.). We looked at the top 1,000 U.S.

Airlines 8

Airlines Hedge Metrics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8