HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. Photo: Mastercard.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. Why do we crave leadership nowadays?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. After all, the World Bank estimates that the number of middle class consumers in emerging markets will jump from 420 million today to more than 1.2

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. An investor can outperform the market by simply waiting to collect the dividend. What about innovation?

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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. Carl Icahn is at it again. All of this adds up to profits without prosperity in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." It would hardly make sense, therefore, for a US firm to go and locate its headquarters in China or Brazil, even though these are large, fast-growing markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. Say-on-pay is part of a big shift in recent years toward giving professional money managers more tools to affect the governance of (and in some cases discipline the managers of) corporations. That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

Contrarian Number 1 is George Elliott, founder of a hedge fund (Naftilia Asset Management) that plans to buy nothing but stocks from – wait for it – Greece. Elliott does say he’ll be avoiding Greek banks, though. Facebookers are thus uninterested in ads and oblivious to marketers’ brand-building efforts. Sashittal of St.

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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. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. In short, we need the world’s biggest investors to connect with the world’s nimblest investment-technology startups.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6% 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. dollar deposits."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Managers and boards are often pushed by investors, fund managers, and analysts to focus intently on a single measure of success, such as shareholder value or profit, and then they do everything they can to maximize it. Companies should be managed much more holistically. I was once a CEO leading a corporate turnaround.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

From my advisory work, research, and private discussions with executives and board members of pension funds, pension funds that succeed in keeping politics at bay combine strong governance with deft, often pre-emptive, management of issues that could spark a political backlash. Deft, pre-emptive management. Strong governance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

There's been lots of debate over how central banks should react to bubbles. As best I can tell, there are three levels of bubble danger (they correlate somewhat with Hyman Minsky's three stages of economic danger: Ponzi, speculative, and hedge finance). But what about at the level of the corporation? The Ponzi bubble.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. We wrote: All profit is not equal, an idea that has been lost in the narrow, short-term focus of financial markets and in much management thinking. Nor are they entirely innocent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. public companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The book’s title and subtitle capture the spirit of this kind of workplace, where human scale matters more than massive revenue and big market share. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And isn’t lowering costs exactly what managers focused on shareholder value are supposed to be doing? Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. Understanding how to manage reputation risk starts with understanding the elements of reputation. We’d like to propose a solution.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 Many have strategy heads, who are ex-dealmakers at investment banks, whose default assumption is that if the company has a performance problem, the natural fix is to buy and/or sell something. GE stock was trading at $25.47

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

So what you see is that criminals are going after health records because on the black market they can probably sell a health record of a person for about $50. If they only steal credit card data or a social security number, they might be able to sell that on the black market for $1. And then finally, Board-level involvement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Then it wasn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Volatility has returned to global markets, and consumer and business confidence is once again slipping. In scores of conversations I've had with business leaders, pension fund trustees, asset managers, employer associations, and NGOs since I first issued this call in HBR , everyone has agreed with the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. 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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

A cornerstone of efficient and transparent markets is freely available information. In 2001 professors Gur Huberman and Tomer Regev of Columbia University drew attention to a peculiar sequence of market reactions to news regarding a cancer research breakthrough licensed by biotech firm EntreMed.

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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.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The economist Robert Shiller has suggested issuing bonds that are linked to GDP, arguing that "the opportunity to participate in the uncertain economic growth of the issuer might well excite, rather than scare off, investors — just as it does in the stock market.". Of course, certain investor safeguards are needed.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. 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. The desperate-to-prove-himself banker found a chart that showed how the housing market was overpriced. She was right. Lucky thing, that.

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