Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

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. Another hedge-fund activist, David Einhorn, was then playing that role). Apple Economy Innovation'

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Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

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. And what about that price?

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

When Paul Polman became the CEO of Unilever, for example, he stopped giving analysts earnings guidance, dispensed with quarterly profit reports, and said there’d be no special treatment for hedge funds. Initially the market took a dim view of this shift, punishing the stock price. And so it goes, stakeholder by stakeholder.

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Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Some of that profit is the result of innovative pricing models. commercial banking industry. One example would be activist hedge funds, which are known to push for and successfully implement product market strategies that increase the market share of a target firm at the expense of its competitors.

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Airlines Price Hedge Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. ” Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits, and raise the dividend. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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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. IKEA is a great example of this.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 307

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

BancAlliance, a consortium of community banks, has partnered with Lending Club, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Customized, individual lending has historically been difficult for small banks because of regulatory risk and the high cost of underwriting a large pool of loans.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

And the choice to hold on to cash or use it to repurchase shares, rather than invest profits in new opportunities for innovation and expansion, has had real consequences for our economy that have contributed to the current political upheaval. Authoritative studies have shown that inequality and stagnating wages hurt corporate growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. Further, Nike was ranked the #7 most innovative company by Fast Company in 2014 , and the 13 th most admired company by Forbes magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They are dealing with the environment; successfully making the shift from an infrastructure state to a consumer society; becoming an innovative economy; having a positive impact on the world order; and finally, and perhaps most importantly, making the transition from Xi Jinping’s “Seven No’s” to a more sustainable political model.

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Education Politics Globalization 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. Next, you''ll want to position yourself as a potential fount of innovation.

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Brand How To Hedge Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

In times of change, businesses have to adapt and innovate. This was apparent in the role the big investment banks played in bringing on the 2007/2008 financial crisis: were they advisers? hedge funds? This fluidity isn't a bad thing. And vampire squid are by all appearances harmless little beasts , unless you're a prawn.).

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

They may choose it for other reasons, for example, to encourage cooperation or innovation. It has resulted in higher prices in the airline and banking industries. There’s evidence of this dynamic in the tension between smaller undiversified investors (such as hedge funds) and large asset management companies.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 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: Economies and business operate in very complex systems.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2015

In the second , Wall Street is capturing value rather than creating it; as economist Tyler Cowen once put it : “It’s as if the major banks have tapped a hole in the social till and they are drinking from it with a straw.” ” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates.

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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. We need energetic innovators to turn the magic of artificial intelligence into benefits for a great many people.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. 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? Insight Center.

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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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