Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. But this was not the first time its policies were violated.

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

A unit of a company that sells janitorial supplies to industrial customers spent years trying to develop a new cleaning agent that was more effective and "better smelling" than its previous offering. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Modify mindset.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing. It was developed by Japan and South Korea in the 1980s and is used widely by emerging markets from Brazil to India.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate 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. But it was very relevant to my development as a human being.

Brand 8

Brand How To Hedge Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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. They never released the product.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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. They never released the product.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Sheelah Kolhatkar, in a cover story (and what a classy cover it is) in the new Bloomberg Businessweek , argues that the great alternative to plain-vanilla equity and debt investing — the hedge fund — is more or less over, too. An important engine for economic growth is the creation of new enterprises.

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In one area, however, deep uncertainties exist which must cause even the most pro-China investors to want to hedge their bets. How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands. In sum, we see China making real progress in many areas by 2034. Abrami, Kirby, and McFarlan are the coauthors of the forthcoming book, Can China Lead?:

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. 2) What is culture worth? 3) What processes in an organization affect culture?

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Instead of asking an analyst to develop their statistics or machine learning skills, consider encouraging them to seek the heights of their own discipline first. Engineering excellence is a must. ” Their semi-sloppy coding style baffles traditional software engineers — but leaves them in the dust. The result?

Organization 15

Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Your current business is the performance engine. To deal with this problem, over the course of thirty-five years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world, I have developed a simple, practical framework that recognizes all three competing challenges managers face when leading innovation. Potato Head, G.I.

Innovation 8

Innovation Management Hedge Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. That was the point of his famous requirement that every business had to be No.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Capitalism might be the greatest engine of prosperity and progress ever devised, but in recent years, individuals and communities have grown increasingly disgruntled with the implicit contract that governs the rights and responsibilities of business. What tactics or capabilities might we develop to earn some slack from investors?

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control. Suppose you’re an engineer and you’re building a bridge.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. They partnered up with IBM to develop OS/2 , and decimated the Windows team. They decided to pursue their doctorates, and offered their search engine to Yahoo for $1 million.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 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. While an internal combustion engine has thousands of parts, a Tesla electric engine contains a few dozen, each needing different engineering skills.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

In 1987, a Portuguese audio engineer named Fernando Duarte took a friend, South African entrepreneur Robbie Brozin, to a small takeout restaurant in a suburb of Johannesburg. Few business leaders have developed this attention to the front line as effectively as M.S. Robbie Brozin and the insurgent mission.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The competition for talent will be especially intense for companies for whom advanced analytics forms a core part of their proposition — think e-commerce giants, hedge funds and complex system engineers. For them, a dedicated, in-house team of data specialists can be a necessity. But the rest of us? Not so much. The result?

Analysis 8

Analysis How To Tools Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Similarly, production engineers treated their factories royally and their labor as expendable, until unions and labor laws intervened. More products at more pricepoints" is their name for this strategy.

ROE 13

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 13