Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

At least seven hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion just in 2009. In 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit set a series of ambitious development goals for 2015 , among them reducing by half the number of people living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger and lacking access to clean drinking water.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S. -based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal. wage to 11 million workers — considerably more than our 7.8 million citizens who are currently unemployed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 And in the 21st century, the majority of public company shareholders are institutional investors (banks, insurance companies, pensions, hedge funds, REITs, investment advisers, endowments, and mutual funds), not individuals. (In Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. He has led the company to create Predix, a platform for the industrial internet, which had $5 billion in revenue in 2015. Starbucks stopped accepting the Square payment system in late 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In the time period of March 2015 to March 2016, the Saudi government withdrew over $100 billion from its foreign reserves – nearly a sixth of the fund’s total value just a year ago. Will the reforms work?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, warned in a June 2015 letter to the bank’s shareholders, “Silicon Valley is coming.” By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

To answer these questions, I talked to Marc van Zadelhoff, VP of IBM Security, about the current state of cybersecurity and the Ponemon Institute’s 2015 study of cybersecurity around the world, which IBM sponsored. What should you think about? HBR: Did the study find any new trends in cybersecurity?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This is partly due to the tendency to grow more than needed as a hedge against weather and disease and fluctuating wholesale and retail orders. Food waste starts at farms in the value chain. In the U.S., it is estimated that about 7% of produce is left unharvested in fields every year.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In 2015, for instance, he raised the base employee wage by 33%, to $16 an hour, and introduced an enhanced benefit program for employees with household incomes under 300% of the federal poverty level, potentially saving them thousands per year in health care costs. .”

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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. It has spent almost $90 billion on buybacks and almost $33 billion on dividends from 2012 through the third quarter of 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In 2015, there was a surplus of people with data science skills. The competition for talent will be especially intense for companies for whom advanced analytics forms a core part of their proposition — think e-commerce giants, hedge funds and complex system engineers. MirageC/Getty Images. million positions in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Now, in a New York Times op-ed , Carl Icahn, the billionaire corporate raider turned hedge fund activist, has joined the chorus. FactSet Research calculates that in the 12 months ending with September 2015, S&P 500 companies spent 64.6% He labels the Pfizer-Allergan deal a “travesty,” blaming the U.S.’s

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