Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

We have worked with banks willing to take on toxic assets (again) and hedge funds willing to take a $100 million gamble on a failing company. Mindfulness scores increased as expected, but incredibly, on average, stress levels dropped by 28%, reported sleep quality improved 20%, and pain dropped by 19%.

Stress 8

Stress Hedge Training Cost 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2022

If putting your money in a risky investment is going to massively increase your stress level, then you may want to put your money somewhere else. Make sure you diversify your assets so you hedge your risk accordingly. Everyone has their limits when it comes to financial risk, and you need to find yours before you invest your money.

How To 96

How To Hedge Bond Marketing 96

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2018

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. By framing a situation you’re dreading differently before you attempt it, you may be able to avoid some stress and anxiety.

How To 15

How To Learning-by-Doing CEO Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

At a recent dinner party, I was speaking with a friend who had just been promoted to vice president at a well-known New York hedge fund. The promotion was unexpected, involved an immediate 50% pay raise, and came with broad new responsibilities.

Career 21

Career Christensen Hedge Short-term 21

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” the CEO of the hedge fund yelled at one of his portfolio managers. So, back to the hedge fund CEO’s question: How do you reverse a losing streak? “Why?” “Why would you increase that investment? What were you thinking?” When the manager left his office, the CEO turned to me, exasperated.

Hedge 8

Hedge Tactics CEO Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

When Stress Helps You Get More Done. One of my students at London Business School joined a hedge fund and was bummed when he was laid off at the start of the financial crisis. Looking back at it today, can you see clearly that it was not so bad, and perhaps was even a “good thing”? Related Video.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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 10

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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 10

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

— from private equity to hedge funds to IPOs. Procrastinating creates not only a very stressful environment but ultimately a show that is not as well-conceived, customized to the audience, and polished as it must be. Over the past 17 years I've worked with hundreds of executives to raise billions of dollars. Get Pumped or Slump.

IPO 12

IPO Audience Storytelling Video 12

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2023

In The Technology Trap, Oxford academic Carl Benedikt Frey argues that mobility is a valuable hedge against the rise of automation as it allows people to move to where jobs exist should their livelihoods be disrupted. Obviously, there are various barriers to such mobility, such as housing and transport scarcity.

Licensing 124

Licensing Hedge Transportation Long-term 124

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Sheelah Kolhatkar, in a cover story (and what a classy cover it is) in the new Bloomberg Businessweek , argues that the great alternative to plain-vanilla equity and debt investing — the hedge fund — is more or less over, too. — needs to set aside 16% to 20% of her income (!) if she hopes to retire at age 65 at half salary.

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

One quant designer at a New York hedge fund (that trades more in a week than a Fortune 250 company makes in a year) confided: “It took years for us to trust the algorithms enough to resist the temptation to override them… There are still [occasional] trades we won’t make and [not doing them] almost always costs us money.”

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

The normal culprits for short-termism are short-term-minded hedge-fund managers and activist shareholders, as well as CEOs worried about big bet investments with uncertain paybacks.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

As prominent hedge fund manager Bill Ackman told me, “When I graduated from business school I thought business was about making money and philanthropy was about doing good. Now I think both can be used as methods for changing the world.” ” Sir Ronald Cohen, the father of British venture capital, agrees.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

When acclaimed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones revealed his opinion that women become much less effective as stock traders or investors once they have children, he was, in a sense, suggesting that the distraction of motherhood—a distinctly feminine condition—exceeds that of other attention-siphoning activities.

Presenteeism 8

Presenteeism Hedge Report Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

And by the late 1990's investment banks and hedge funds were in the business of betting for and against currencies. The BusinessWeek piece is called "The Stress of Carrying Cash." This is the "hot money" that Mahathir referred to. dollar deposits." Idle hands are the devil's playground.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

Ray Dalio, head of the $165 billion Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, says it makes him feel like “a ninja in a fight.” Research suggests that even a just a few minutes of meditation lowers stress and improves concentration and focus in a tired brain. ” Their secret weapon? Meditation.

How To 8

How To Ryan Energy Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

hedge fund partner, told me: “If you want balance, go be a yoga Nidra instructor.” Alexandra, the hedge fund partner, had colleagues who were obsessed with American football, but as she told me: “I never talk about sports. Know your psychological superchargers. As Alexandra, a U.S. It doesn’t interest me.”

Energy 14

Energy Hedge Parcell Career 14

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

APRIL 2, 2014

You have some physical understanding of the way in which the traffic is going to vibrate the bridge and cause stresses on the supports, but there’s a range of possible models of how much vibration the trucks are going to make. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Among peacocks, large tails so charm the peahens that the male tail has grown to the point where the males are stressed by the nutritional burdens of growing and carrying the stupendous appendage, and are more subject to predation because of its weight. First, by stressing that the point is innovation.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12