Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This strategy can also help retailers manage competitive and strategic challenges by strengthening retail partnerships with food suppliers and connecting with customers’ needs and wants in new ways. #1. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Managers and boards are often pushed by investors, fund managers, and analysts to focus intently on a single measure of success, such as shareholder value or profit, and then they do everything they can to maximize it. Companies should be managed much more holistically. I was once a CEO leading a corporate turnaround.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. hedge funds. We continually find that most major transformation initiatives end up being managed as IT projects, with responsibility abdicated to the CIO.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And isn’t lowering costs exactly what managers focused on shareholder value are supposed to be doing? Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. Understanding how to manage reputation risk starts with understanding the elements of reputation. We’d like to propose a solution.

Reputation 8

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

From my advisory work, research, and private discussions with executives and board members of pension funds, pension funds that succeed in keeping politics at bay combine strong governance with deft, often pre-emptive, management of issues that could spark a political backlash. Deft, pre-emptive management. Strong governance.

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Institutional banking businesses — including trading operations — typically don't have high barriers to entry. financial institution has pulled back or failed, there has almost always been a European bank or a Japanese bank or some other player willing to take over its trading operations or enter the market in its place.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Constraint Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

It is a risk to business operations and profitability. Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs dumped terabytes of information on government investigators looking into the causes of the financial crisis. This is more than a nightmare for the affected firm's public relations department. But competitors would surely invest much more effort.

Gordon 14

Gordon Hedge Public Relations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? LTCM’s model continued to predict that it was properly hedged against a potential Russian default; the insight that it actually needed — that it was under-hedged and exposed to liquidity risk — could only have come from outside of the model.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Herbalife After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power The New York Times If you’re looking for the corporate-governance version of House of Cards, this is probably the closest you''ll get (though there''s no strategic murdering here, as far as I know). Crisis management Information & technology Technology'

McGregor 8

McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

military operations in Vietnam. Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

military operations in Vietnam. Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners’ flagship fund, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But three years after the financial crisis broke, I remain more convinced than ever that the fundamental cure for restoring economic growth and repairing societal trust in business is to deepen our ability to manage companies for the long term. Here again, CEOs can and should manage that process actively.

Long-term 8

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My grandfather ran the exports, while my great-uncle managed the palm plantation. But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. My father would put more professional managers in key positions.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs?

Compliance 10

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Researchers find echoes of this story in other contexts all the time — circumstances where adding safety-enhancements to systems actually makes crisis situations more dangerous, not less so. By reintroducing simplicity and modularity back into the system, a crisis somewhere doesn't always have to become a crisis everywhere.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While the global financial meltdown and its aftershocks have unleashed a flood of indignation, condemnation, and protest upon Wall Street, the crisis has exposed a deeper distrust and implacable resentment of capitalism itself. How do we stretch management timeframes and perspectives?

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

A year before Bear Stearns failed during the financial crisis, there were signs that the Wall Street firm was in trouble. During July 2007, two of Bear Stearns’ large hedge funds were failing. What was CEO James Cayne doing at the time? That’s consistent with the notion of entrenched CEOs allocating more time to leisure.

CEO 8

CEO Incentives Sports Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009.

CEO 8

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. conflict in the Middle East or Africa renewing the migrant crisis in Europe. conflict in the Middle East or Africa renewing the migrant crisis in Europe. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

the management consultancy. Such plans frequently include giving managers financial incentives to do what they should have done before — concentrating on the most promising lines, selling off dud businesses, and "leaning down" operations, often including headcount. Vulture capitalism ," as Governor Perry has suggested?

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12