Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. 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' Then Andreessen quit the board. Icahn won that playground tussle.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” The actual outcome for Cisco turned out to be a 156% increase in net income from fiscal 2000 through fiscal 2013. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty'

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). Compensation Ethics Finance' So I studied sociology, and for my doctoral dissertation focused on the organizational culture of Goldman Sachs.

Banking 9

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I have inflated all the incomes to 2013 dollars to make comparisons more easily understood. Financing WWII could have been used as an excuse for these highly confiscatory rates, but rather than dropping after the end of war, they continued to rise. All the data is from the very handy Tax Foundation website. The First Era: 1862-1915.

System 8

System Incentives Hedge Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. ” Many of them are in China, but there are also hedge funds and bitcoin investment funds who hold massive amounts of bitcoin. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013).

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12