Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

A composite index of more than 2,000 hedge funds returned 72% over the past decade while charging substantial fees—the 25 highest-paid hedge-fund managers made $21 billion last year, according to the Wall Street Journal. trillion , up from $865 billion a decade ago. Risk management'

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Hedge Comparison Bond Risk Management 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2018

Because so many of the modern approaches to the any industry is hedging its bets on automation, and with the advent of driverless trucks on the horizon, the average truck driver is, naturally, very concerned about their earning potential. Are Drivers Being Put Out Of Jobs?

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Industry Hedge Entrepreneur Bond 59

RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 13, 2017

As Kristi Hedges, writing for Forbes suggests , just as CEOs regularly assemble teams of trusted advisers to help them make tough decisions, you can do the same thing, regardless of your current level in the organization. Doing things together outside the work environment can deepen the bonds of trust on the job. Form a Personal Board.

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Collins Mentor Open-book Hedge 203

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2022

Furthermore, you should consider diversifying your assets across stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Make sure you diversify your assets so you hedge your risk accordingly. There are plenty of industries out there, and you may want to spread your money out across all of them. This is a core investment principle.

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How To Hedge Bond Marketing 93

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Then came the punch line: the buyer had insisted on a deal structure by which the outside equity providers would be paid $11 million – a annual return of 3% that looks suspiciously like the interest rate on a secure bond, not a risky startup investment. But of course, it’s not just hedge fund managers.

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Hedge Bond CEO Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

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Bond Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

For sheer bonhomie and bonding, golf remains a global opportunity for American, Asian, and European executives to mix business with pleasure. Indeed, I know Silicon Valley and (admittedly younger) hedge fund quant teams who bond and boost morale through their Minecraft bouts.

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Human Capital Game Theory Bond Hedge 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

However CEOs that implement a well thought out and clearly articulated vision, create a sense of stability and a bond of trust amongst the ranks. A lack of clarity, the presence of ambiguity, obviously flawed business logic, or constantly shifting priorities/positions are the death of many a venture.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 374

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Soon after, when Khan began tutoring his niece in mathematics while working at a hedge fund, he hit upon the idea of developing short video tutorials on YouTube. A relatively new instrument called a social impact bond is a powerful example of how this might be done. Cohen and his colleagues created a bond, backed by private investors.

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Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2011

As the never-ending global economic crisis has intensified, we've had plenty of what economists call "capital flight" to "safer" financial assets, whether gold, bonds, or blue chip stocks. Rather, here's how I'd describe it. But perhaps the safest investments of all are the human, social, and emotional ones.

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Crisis Bond Depreciation Hedge 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

John Authers, in Thursday''s FT , musters up the evidence (or at least the opinions) that bonds and stocks are both likely to deliver paltry returns for years to come. as "normal" in the decades following World War II — and particularly since 1980 — are anything but. So here''s the big if.

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Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

The Barron's article mentioned that a 690 million euro convertible bond sale in February had bought Amazon some more time (the list was based on 1999 year-end data) — but that the company would still run out of cash in 21 months. billion in bonds the year before). But it also included a certain Internet bookseller from Seattle.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. insider trading by hedge funds. have centered on. Bharara has not filed charges (yet?)

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Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Those employees work at two of Britain’s most-admired retailers, John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, each of which has carved out a powerful bond with customers, both of which have unveiled big innovations in terms of branding, merchandising, and e-commerce.

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

They''re the commitment equivalent of the hedge funder who uses LED light bulbs on his private jet to be ''environmental.''" Even our outrage is boring — we become insipidly incensed about "some guy who had his phone up in the air for, like, 20 seconds during the glockenspiel solo" of an Arcade Fire concert. They''re pretentious.

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Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. But as I describe in “ Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry ,” sociologist Robert Putnam argues that a healthy network has both “bonding” and “bridging” capital — i.e., homogeneous and heterogeneous relationships.

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Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

” For example, researchers in one study could predict whether participants would choose to buy stocks or a bond by looking at their brain scans. Already, some hedge funds are exploring whether to use brain scans in evaluating prospective job candidates to see whether they are more risk averse or risk seeking.

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Proposal Participative Hedge Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

It is certainly true that investors, dismayed at the prospect of low returns for stocks and bonds for years to come, have poured money into commodities over the past decade. Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks.

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Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune. Too many professionals over-index on “ bonding capital ,” to use a term popularized by Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam, and underinvest in “bridging capital.” Here are three strategies that can help ensure your talents are recognized.

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Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully. I work in the investment business, where risk-taking is an occupational necessity. Because our performance has been good (knock on wood) since our inception, I have to like the process. What are the potential downsides?

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Tversky Kahneman Hedge Analysis 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: With family offices, there is this intergenerational play.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bridgewater Associates, which was founded by Ray Dalio in 1975, is the largest hedge fund in the world, managing almost $160 billion. We tend to strengthen bonds only with people who see our positive qualities. Its size and success are not the only interesting thing about the company.

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Self-aware Travel Open-book Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In other words, in the case of a large fine, the senior management and the material risk-takers would forfeit its performance bond. Consider what actually happened at JP Morgan Chase after the gigantic “London whale” trading loss. . It might also drive away some talented employees.

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Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

There has been only one widely accepted and durable “model of asset price determination” for stock, bonds, and the like. This is no more than saying that there is something happening that we can’t explain …. The man has a point, but only up to a point. But dot-coms weren’t the only stocks with prices going through the roof in 1999 and 2000.

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Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

But I long for actions that go beyond admonitions to managers and boards to do better, that give both parties a better chance to stand up to capital markets players, like activist hedge funds, pressuring them to become too short-term focused. One capital form is debt: a bond. For everybody else in the system, it is an improvement.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term NPV 9

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.". Each bond would have a maturity of, say, 15 or 20 years.

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GDP Bond How To Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

hedge fund partner, told me: “If you want balance, go be a yoga Nidra instructor.” Alexandra, the hedge fund partner, had colleagues who were obsessed with American football, but as she told me: “I never talk about sports. Know your psychological superchargers. As Alexandra, a U.S. It doesn’t interest me.”

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Energy Hedge Parcell Career 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. Only 5% of venture capitalists, 12% of angel investors, and less than 3% of hedge fund managers are women. To wit, a study by Hedge Fund Research Inc.

Finance 8

Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

[A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.]. Now it turns out that if you think a little more deeply about this, it’s really not right.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

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.

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2016

An emotionally bonding, moving, and persuasive storyline. Two of the four converts hedge (“I don’t agree with Hillary on everything”) before praising her intelligence and experience. Evidence-backed arguments with third-party references as support. Hearing enemy views coming from a member of your own group.

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Audience Film Public Relations Loyalty 8