Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

Most new businesses do fail, and many women who take time off work to raise children have a hard time returning to the career track. How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions. How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control. Hedge against the downside. The truth is, your colleagues are right to be skeptical. Decision Making.

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Career Hedge CFO Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Every year, HBR interviews 10 people who’ve had fascinating careers. My career would not have been the same had the crash not occurred.” We asked her how she knew when a dramatic career move was the right one. ” Leadership Career planning' Here, a few highlights from 2014.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance.

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Human Resources Deming Resources System 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Which means that all of us, no matter where we are in our careers or what sort of work we do, have to reflect on the kind of workplace that works for us. Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. He was right: His online course about how to win promotions earned him an extra $106,000 — on top of his day job salary — in its first full year.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Career planning Education Job search' Fourteen years ago, that was me.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. Once a decision has been made, it's up to the team to figure out how to make it work. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. This is how collaboration gets embedded as a normal way of working. But how to get through the pain barrier? Jumpstarting collaboration.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 20, 2021

I’ve hired a lot of people in my career. How will a perception of favoritism affect their ability to lead? How will this strategy impact the long-term competitiveness of organizations or even of nations? What do you look for in a job candidate?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But portfolio careers aren’t only for stay-at-home parents looking to freelance a few hours a day while their kids are in school or grad students moonlighting as Uber drivers and Task Rabbits. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. Hedge against uncertainty. Gary John Norman/Getty Images.

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Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. To start, assess the network you have today. There’s no other way to put it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

And when it comes to promotion, look past rigid competency models and career ladders for growth opportunities tailored to the ambitions, talents, and capacities of each person. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Be available and accessible for one-on-one conversations. Deliver lessons cued to individual developmental needs.

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Hedge Real Estate Film Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We all know developing a personal brand is valuable, since a strong reputation can put you on the radar for exciting career opportunities. Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune. ” An outsider may have no idea what connects these two positions and assume your career path is somewhat random.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? A probabilistic HR manager will examine the data about where a company’s best people come from and how they perform throughout their career to identify new sources of talent that may have been overlooked.

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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. To resolve the issue, Dalio started meeting with his employees individually to discuss how to treat one another. Its size and success are not the only interesting thing about the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

I initially couldn’t figure how to move my waiter (turns out you just have to click where you want him to go), and my 14-year-old son walked over to check what was going on. As for risk, in my career I have worked for four large and stable media companies (stable when I worked there at least, except for my last few years at Time Inc.)

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JULY 23, 2019

Hedge your bets to protect your downside. Think about what you’d do if you were faced with tough times. For example, take steps to remain healthy, reduce overhead costs, and expand your social network. Be cautious. If you place all your eggs in one basket, any fall will be a messy one. Remain grounded. Don’t let success go to your head.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

When this occurs, the challenge for a premium company is how to discount in a manner that doesn''t damage their brand nor anger customers who paid full price. Guitarist Keith Richards could casually drop in an interview that this may very well likely be the band''s last tour (the "hedge" in the wording is intentional). Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

As I reflected upon my career at Goldman Sachs, though, what stood out was the importance of its organizational structure. I made recommendations on how to improve regulation. I now have a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University and teach at Columbia Business School. After the book was published, Dudley got in touch.

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Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. It feels like we're hedging our bets rather than placing one.". It would affect a whole host of decisions over the coming months: what features to add to the software, what adjacent products they might offer, how to price all the services, and so on. "We

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. It feels like we're hedging our bets rather than placing one.". It would affect a whole host of decisions over the coming months: what features to add to the software, what adjacent products they might offer, how to price all the services, and so on. "We

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Business leaders believe a strong organizational culture is critical to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magic force that few know how to control. We’ve found that answering three questions can help transform culture from a mystery to a science: 1) How does culture drive performance? Insight Center.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

For women with leadership ambitions, there is no shortage of advice for how to reach the top. My work has given me some insights into how women leaders can improve their chances of success once they have reached the top. At the center is managing your mental energy: How to gain it, maintain it, and not drain it.

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Energy Hedge Parcell Career 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Consider disrupting yourself when it comes to these five areas — areas where the skills you honed as a high-achieving student are likely doing you a disservice in your career: 1. Figure out how to challenge and influence authority. Welcome a less proscribed, full of surprise, career path.

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Suddenly, chief diversity officers in corporations around the US started inviting me to speak to their CEOs on how to drive innovation through diversity. In many cases it dramatically changed how a company thought about both diversity and innovation. Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? Learn how to run a regression analysis! We want to win.

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Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Beyond the allure of today's latest fads and fashions, beyond the advice I and others can give you about money, sex, and power and how to get it all, fast, here are four essential, timeless truths. Now, let's talk about meggings , and their even less fortunately named cousin, mantyhose. Life is shorter than any of us truly expect.

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