Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

That discord in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the chief investment office's losing trades in 2012, the current and former bankers said. Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing.

Management 11

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. It isn’t only the branded pundits who are neglecting these issues.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2012 it was $1.9 After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Icahn won that playground tussle.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 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. After all, activists don’t usually have the necessary votes to compel management to respond.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become. But I haven’t.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance' This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

A future compensation action would reduce 2012 variable benefits (bonus or equity awards) in absolute terms (or through a much slower rate of increase). 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.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8