Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. Science fiction can help.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. Sure there will be failures, but with enough persistence and creativity, some viable alternatives will emerge.

Business Model 17

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. John Fedele/Getty Images. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. Sure there will be failures, but with enough persistence and creativity, some viable alternatives will emerge.

Business Model 10

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 10

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Thus, data-opolies have a strong economic incentive to maintain the status quo, in which users, as the MIT Technology Review put it, “have little idea how much personal data they have provided, how it is used, and what it is worth.” Data-opolies can extract wealth by getting creative content from users for free.

Company 13

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Desktop 3D printers are a classic new-market disruption: fundamental changes in technology allow much cheaper, more accessible, and worse performing products to become available to new customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

“Thinking outside the box,” is one of the most well-worn clichés in any business or creative endeavor. The rhymes may be about social patterns, the impact of technology, or how nations tend to adapt. We all prize it. Yet how do you actually do it, when life and livelihood generally depend on operating inside a box?

Groupthink 10

Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I Doom and Gloom. the interviewer had asked.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Plural Investments*, a hedge fund started several years ago, had a problem. That's when she had the idea: why not use the creativity of our own staff to populate the walls? It would require harnessing the best efforts of many smart, creative people. They needed art on the walls of their New York City offices.

Power 14

Power Hedge Chief Operating Officer Kaplan 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

Class 12

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8