Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices. This year, the Department of Energy, through its National Renewable Energy Laboratory, found that more than one hundred information and communication technology companies that consume an estimated 1.5%

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Jobs made technology fun, accessible, and powerful and in so doing he reimagined the ways we could live our lives. And not just any business, but one that on any given day may be the biggest business by market capitalization in the world. This is why Bernanke's loose money policies and the Detroit bailouts incense lots of folks.

Policies 14

Policies Hedge Learning-by-Doing System 14

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work.

Uncertainty 309

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

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. vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6%

Banking 13

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

I thought this would be a wonderful gateway to post on how poorly economists and economics understand and measure innovation in global markets. After all, the man overseeing America's monetary policy should be able to go beyond Keynesian agitprop when discussing innovation policy. My jaw dropped even as my eyes glazed over.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Insight Center. Distributed Database.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. So, a one-size-fits-all policy would not work.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.].

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

There were no big technological changes — factories, steamships, and railroads were still largely in the future. But not the economic policies of the empire, since British control in that area had not been so onerous. That new mindset in turn did much to spur the speedy adoption of technologies in later decades.

Class 8

Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Based on his campaign, Trump’s policies are directionally clear: Reduce personal and corporate taxation, invest in infrastructure, repeal the Affordable Care Act, tighten up on illegal immigration, strengthen law enforcement, and take a tougher stance on trade policy. So what are those implications, exactly? Invest in Resilience.

Strategy 10

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

At Techonomy, Ranadivé made his math-is-trumping-science comments after recommending that the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy in the U.S., What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? But that does that really mean there are no hypotheses involved? be replaced with a computer program. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

Hedge 16

Hedge Committee Open-book Policies 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

At Techonomy, Ranadivé made his math-is-trumping-science comments after recommending that the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy in the U.S., What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? But that does that really mean there are no hypotheses involved? be replaced with a computer program. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

Hedge 9

Hedge Committee Open-book Policies 9

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? and has studied emerging business and technology trends. You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets.

Disintermediation 131

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131