Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, investors can use physical precious metals as a hedge against currency devaluation or inflation. These assets can also be used as a store of value and a potential hedge against geopolitical risks. Both can be a hedge against inflation. These investments are also a good hedge against inflation.

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Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 115

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. It views morality as a kind of bank account. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. This entitlement is funded by those recently deposited credits in the moral bank account. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry. Empower employees.

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Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. However, a decade of research finds that hedge fund activism raises firm value by 7%, with no long-term reversal. What about innovation?

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 307

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

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. The IMF, ECB, and EU own the rest.

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

While the 1% make an easy and perhaps well-deserved target, actually solving the problem of economic inequality calls for addressing the difficult task of developing a workforce with 21st-century skills. New computer programs, some using artificial intelligence , are taking over tasks for bookkeepers, bank tellers, clerks, and others.

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Policies Technology Hedge Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Soros was by then known as "the man who broke the Bank of England" because he had reputedly made more than a billion dollars speculating against the pound in 1992. The conflict between the IMF and Malaysia was a sign of a tipping point in the developed economies, shifting from a world of capital scarcity to one of abundance.

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Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

As one chief information security officer for a global bank said, "If we did all the security checks we'd like to before connecting with new hedge fund customers, they would just take their business across the street.". Unfortunately, though, it's all too easy to grind your business to a halt with doctrinaire security policies.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Unprofitable, but still promising, product lines were cut, timber stocks were reduced to a bare minimum, employee numbers were razored, and long-term development activities were curtailed. In short, we had to be a bit myopic to survive. We saved the company from being wound up — barely. It was no way to run a firm over the long term.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Interference by elected officials — from imposition of local economic development obligations to excessive constraints on head count and compensation that impede recruitment of talented staff — has contributed to poor investment choices, higher total costs, diminished organizations, and disappointing performance at some institutions.

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Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The topic — part of a series on innovation sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development Board and coordinated by Harvard Business Review — was "What's the Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets: Target Customers at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid?". billion by 2030. You also need to re-think how you organize.

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Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Drew quickly retired after the losses, and Iksil and Macris are, according to news reports, leaving the bank.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

student at the Ecole Polytechnique, and a statistics professor at Columbia) developed a statistical technique for detecting bubbles that they tested on data from the dot-com heyday. There's been lots of debate over how central banks should react to bubbles. The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D

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Company Finance Price IPO 14

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. Paul Garbett for HBR. SASB uses the U.S.

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Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. But it was very relevant to my development as a human being.

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Brand How To Hedge Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

But businesses and professions that have been around for years tend to develop codes or ethics or at least norms of acceptable behavior. This was apparent in the role the big investment banks played in bringing on the 2007/2008 financial crisis: were they advisers? hedge funds? scam artists? The answer: a mix of all five.

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

We have worked with banks willing to take on toxic assets (again) and hedge funds willing to take a $100 million gamble on a failing company. Truly forward-thinking leaders recognize that one of the best business strategies is developing the mindfulness of their workforce.

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Stress Hedge Training Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This sweeping development known as “common ownership” – the same firms owning the competing firms in the same industry – is relatively new. It has resulted in higher prices in the airline and banking industries. Still, other empirical studies have identified anti-competitive effects of common ownership.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Nonetheless, a sustainable and growing consumer economy depends on service sector reforms, especially in the banking sector, to meet the needs of lower cap private-sector borrowers at the base of the pyramid. In one area, however, deep uncertainties exist which must cause even the most pro-China investors to want to hedge their bets.

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Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as 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. And the impact isn’t limited to customer satisfaction.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Wall Street investment banks and hedge fund activists, some of whom began targeting McDonald’s a decade ago , also gain from the temporary boosts that buybacks produce. For the other four highest-paid McDonald’s executives named in the company’s proxy statements, average total compensation ranged from a low of $1.5

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story. Noble: With family offices, there is this intergenerational play.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Visa and MasterCard are both exploring uses for similar technology to improve the way they process payments, while Ripple is lowering the cost of transactions between banks and other financial institutions through its global settlement network. But the practical applications for blockchain technology go way beyond financial assets.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. Before I knew it I was presenting the ideas in my book to Steve Black, who at the time headed up investment banking at JP Morgan Chase. In response, I usually tell the following story.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Secondly, they are global instruments — not national ones — and they are funded using bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies that are not controlled by any central authority or bank. ” Many of them are in China, but there are also hedge funds and bitcoin investment funds who hold massive amounts of bitcoin.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Uneven, stratified, exclusionary economic development, accompanied by economic flatlining? Yep — for just one example, see then-Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson tipping off his hedge fund buddies about Fannie and Freddie. Sounds familiar. Mounting demographic pressures, including slum creation? Just tour Baltimore.

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Politics Hedge GDP Banking 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The new commercial mindset helped unite the previously fractured colonies into a national economy, with open state borders and a growing network of banks. As historians have increasingly appreciated, technology is usually a secondary cause in economic development.

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Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

If I wanted to hedge my bet, I’d add in twenty-something men, and if I really wanted to feel safe, I’d throw in guys in their early 30s, too. Still, as The Guardian points out, these data should be a wake-up call to the gaming industry, where less than 7% of developers are women. But I’d be wrong. WHO’S THE VILLAIN HERE?

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Outsourcing Hedge Airlines Bottom-up 14

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Because growth is unpredictable, it’s unwise to bank on a certain set of assumptions. You establish your goal (where you want to go) and your position (where you are now), and then develop your strategy (how to get from your position to your goal in the most efficient and effective way).

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Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Given the promise and peril of such a disruptive technology, many firms in the financial industry, from banks and insurers to audit and professional service firms, are investing in blockchain solutions. Is this the end of banking as we know it?

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Then banking regulations were imposed. And functionally, there is no longer a need to ration financial resources; there's more money available than can be productively invested—which is why the financial industry is only minimally about investing, and all about flipping, swapping, hedging, engineering, and other forms of lever-pressing.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Europe’s migrant crisis illustrates how events in developing countries create ripple effects that ultimately affect global business. An anti-immigrant, Euroskeptic Italian government could spook investors, dragging down the shares of bad-debt-laden Italian banks and weakening the nation’s sovereign debt.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9