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." After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. Its full name is, after all, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

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.

Health Care 13

Health Care How To Hedge Environment 13

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

It’s common sense, but it bears repeating, given how many companies don’t operate that way. 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.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Some institutions, such as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board , are stand-alone legal entities with an independent board and a requirement to operate at arm’s length from government. We pay competitively but no hedge fund-size packages.” Autonomy for pension institutions starts with a strong governance framework.

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

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.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

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.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 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. We’d like to propose a solution. What – or who – is a Qualt?

Reputation 8

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Volatility has returned to global markets, and consumer and business confidence is once again slipping. 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.

Long-term 8

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

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.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

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.

Succession 16

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 16

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Because growth is unpredictable, it’s unwise to bank on a certain set of assumptions. In healthy and aligned organizations, the stated values and operating values are one and the same. Create a one-page document that contains the company’s operating values, vision, and mission. First, define “strategy” and “actions.”

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code. Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Multinational companies should pressure-test 2018 sales targets and currency hedging against this scenario.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8