Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

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. So when we behave badly, we still can consider ourselves, on balance, good people.

Licensing 8

Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

What''s more, the asset management industry — in particular the alternative-asset subset of hedge funds and private equity — has exported many of its pay practices into the corporate sector. So paying bank CEOs mostly in stock is a recipe for a financial crisis. Boards Compensation Leadership'

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? 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. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

Uncertainty 307

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. Building in-house is not for the faint of heart.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Hedge 314

Hedge Class Video Career 314

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Counting cash reserves, dividend payments, and stock repurchases, corporate America has had the opportunity to invest nearly $3 trillion in capital since the 2008 Great Recession — more than six times the size of the TARP bank bailout. Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Consider the reputation damage caused by product failure at GM, or unpopular workplace practices at Walmart, or the multibillion dollar fines for fraud levied against Bank of America – which, not incidentally, came in dead last in a recent Harris Interactive reputation ranking. Vision and leadership. Emotional appeal.

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

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. Neither hedge fund managers, nor venture capitalists, nor mutual fund managers came anywhere close to these results.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B 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. What the chart shows is that while we tend to think that leadership matters most to motivation, other processes can have an even bigger impact.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 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. Corporate social responsibility Leadership Social enterprise'

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Caterpillar , for example, publishes its dealer sales statistics by region each month, while the Spanish bank Santander puts out a newsletter with key operating results and commentary. Acting and communicating in this fashion will also start to attract long-term investors. Here again, CEOs can and should manage that process actively.

Long-term 9

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Update: Politico's Ben White did have a brief testimonial from hedge fund manager and Goldman client Whitney Tilson this morning.) Worse still, equity-holders often have risk-taking incentives out of line with the interests of other bank stakeholders, much less society. billion of Goldman's $28.81 billion in net revenue.

Hedge 14

Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

For women with leadership ambitions, there is no shortage of advice for how to reach the top. Over the last 17 years, I have served as an executive coach to hundreds of senior women leaders, many of them working in heavily male-dominated environments such as banking, the military, and the police force. tomas robertson/unsplash.

Energy 14

Energy Hedge Parcell Career 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The horrible irony: The very detail-oriented systems (and people) Dimon had put in place had obscured rather than surfaced his bank's horrible hedge. If Dimon had seen those positions — naked and unsummarized — back then, could his bank have saved itself and its CEO a lot of money and embarrassment?

Micromanagement 17

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 17

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Because growth is unpredictable, it’s unwise to bank on a certain set of assumptions. Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. Based on a national survey we conducted, 33% of bosses rarely or never ask for their subordinates’ advice.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. 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.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9