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. These companies trade on the stock market and are leveraged to the price of the underlying metals. Precious Metal ETFs.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

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. We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate.

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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. Reaching this vast middle won't be easy, I said.

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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 close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action. Why do we crave leadership nowadays?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

” On the other side, noted economist and hedge fund adviser Larry Summers cautions that reforming “quarterly capitalism” would risk driving us toward “Japan’s keiretsu system, which insulated corporate management from share price pressure by tying large companies together.” years in 2002 to 7.2

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. Financial markets are like that, Soros goes on. Wilmers, also known as his annual messages to the shareholders of Buffalo-based M&T Bank Corp. where he is CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

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. 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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

To understand why, one need only look at the state of America’s community banks: Former SBA administrator and HBS professor Karen Mills wrote about this for HBR earlier this month, arguing that the decline of community banks has threatened small business lending in the U.S. ” That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

The involvement of banks such as Goldman and J.P. Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. Morgan in the metals trade?

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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. The only time in its history when Apple raised funds on the stock market was its 1980 IPO, which provided it with $97 million.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

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. Similar effects have been shown in the U.S.

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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. FACEBOOK GENERATION.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move 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. 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. That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Rawley explains in this Columbia Ideas at Work piece: “If you’re coming from a New York bank and starting up a new hedge fund, even if you are well connected in New York, you’re competing with people who are also well connected. There are a lot of hedge funds chasing dollars in New York, but very few in Missouri.”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The job market does not account for all social value. On the other hand, some sectors involve “zero sum” endeavors, in which profits come at the expense of other market participants. Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market. Some spillovers are quite large.

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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. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

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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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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

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

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Due in part to the stature of its board, a North American pension fund was able to retain a market-competitive pay structure despite the clamor that erupted following its announcement that it had suffered substantial investment losses during the global financial crisis. We pay competitively but no hedge fund-size packages.”

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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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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?

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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

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

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

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. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. And while the new electrified vehicles market is growing fast, it’ll be many years until those technologies dominate. The Guilt or Enlightenment: Moral Suasion . They’d better.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2016

market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. We studied those pay packages in relation to the firm’s performance, rival firms’ performance, measures of market concentration, and common ownership of the industry. It has resulted in higher prices in the airline and banking industries.

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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. We’d like to propose a solution. What – or who – is a Qualt?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. 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 So what happened?

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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

MARCH 24, 2011

Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. As the stock market began to take off, though, and options rained down on corporate execs, the compensation tables began to turn, certainly for the top ranks.

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