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.

Brand 15

Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As one industry insider told us, “I am in the business of making money, I don’t care who you are, as long as you can help me in that goal.” Given the general underrepresentation of women among investment professionals, especially in hedge funds, it was not surprising that only about 4.2%

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

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.

Brand 8

Brand How To Hedge Film 8

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2023

In The Technology Trap, Oxford academic Carl Benedikt Frey argues that mobility is a valuable hedge against the rise of automation as it allows people to move to where jobs exist should their livelihoods be disrupted. Obviously, there are various barriers to such mobility, such as housing and transport scarcity. No barrier.

Licensing 108

Licensing Hedge Transportation Long-term 108

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. Restricting stock sales could push their thinking and actions in a more long-term direction. I now have a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University and teach at Columbia Business School.

Banking 9

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

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. Only if you stick with the effort through a long enough time frame can you expect the returns to become positive. Many people and companies start the investment, but quit before seeing the returns.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Okay, that sounds better — in a later conversation he termed it “cognitive throughput.” And my “signature score” of 61, Halfteck wrote, means I’m “in the top 40% in terms of employability in professional/knowledge jobs.” Maybe Halfteck would have gotten that hedge fund job, and never started a company.

Hedge 9

Hedge Efficiency Information Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. Yes, they're not staying long now, but we believe we can bring down their churn rate by paying more attention to them. We can evolve the product to better meet their needs — or try using longer contract terms. They want growth. Dirk asked.

Case Study 15

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Dirk, who had spent his career in sales, started the business for that very reason. Yes, they're not staying long now, but we believe we can bring down their churn rate by paying more attention to them. We can evolve the product to better meet their needs — or try using longer contract terms. They want growth. Dirk asked.

Case Study 12

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 12

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.”

Energy 13

Energy Hedge Parcell Career 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

That way, when the going is good, you can maximize your upside yield on assets like ticket sales and merchandise, and when the team isn’t performing quite as well, you have a hedge in place to protect your downside risk. Where do you think the NBA should be focusing in terms of digital coverage? The NBA seems to have lagged.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. Greater investment in reskilling has a strong business case and will benefit workers in the form of higher wages and greater long-term career opportunities.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

At the macro level, short-term EBIDTA optimization board room mindsets, the shareholder investor quest for outsized returns, and the reality that digital transformation is not enough have led to the conditions for digital giants to emerge. Let’s start with the short-term mindset. Take a long-term growth mind set.

Disintermediation 130

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130