Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Cambridge Group conducted a Pricing Power Study across 124 everyday consumable categories using Nielsen data from 2008 to 2010. For example, lower income shoppers appear willing to pay more now to hedge future costs. One such category was over-the-counter family planning products, better known as birth control.

Retail 14

Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 14

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.

Hedge 314

Hedge Class Video Career 314

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

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.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

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. And, in fact, the more power we have, and the higher we ascend in our careers, the less self-aware we become. Its size and success are not the only interesting thing about the company.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Travel Open-book Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. ” Given a choice between a network heavily skewed to the power players in your firm and a good mix of diverse contacts, which would you choose? Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

” With the coding chops to build both prototypes and production systems that work and the stubborn resilience to fail every hour for several years if that’s what it takes, machine learning specialists know that they won’t find the perfect solution in a textbook. Data-driven inspiration is a powerful thing.

Organization 15

Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

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. That the job of managers isn't just to "deliver product" — but to impact lives. Is it "productivity"? Here's what I do mean.

Media 8

Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

Data powers the digital giants. These 100-year platforms enable digital giants to aggregate analytics, automation, and AI to power future decisions at scale. 3) hedge bets by building products and services on multiple platforms in order to compete on the same terms as digital giants in ways that are least likely to get regulated.

Disintermediation 131

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131