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.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2014
9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. In August 2013, Icahn bought more than $1 billion worth of Apple shares. trillion on buybacks (51% of net income) and another $2.3
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 27, 2015
My research into the world’s most successful bosses has unearthed some common practices that make work much more meaningful and enjoyable. A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey of managers in the U.S. If you supervise others, make sure you do the following: Manage individuals, not teams. ” Just 2%!
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 11, 2014
First, making significant amounts of your own power at zero variable cost is more than nice; it’s a hedge against volatility and smooths out expenses, which makes business planning easier. Pushing back on relentless pressure to do only what seems right in the quarter is critical for success in a volatile world. I’m thrilled.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 27, 2014
billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Here are the six likeliest reasons I could come up with: Luck: This has been the baseline academic explanation for investing success for five decades now. And maybe random chance does explain a lot of Icahn’s success. Then Andreessen quit the board.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2013
At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. It was a successful campaign: CEO paychecks came to consist mostly of stock options. Jensen and Kevin J.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2014
s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. hedge funds. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s
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