The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

Osborne 73

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. hedge funds. This is clearly where the Co-operative Bank’s program floundered. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s It is based on four questions.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. 4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Those administrators in the position to understand the imperative to innovate don’t actually have control over purse strings.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

One 2013 study illustrates this well. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. Gore & Associates gives people free time and resources to develop new ideas. Looking at all these processes together, it’s clear that culture is the operating system of an organization.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. It’s now worth approximately $1,1200 per bitcoin.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11