Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Your current business is the performance engine. It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. That is why organizations must develop the Box 2 capacity to overcome the influence of the past, to divest one identity in favor of another. • Good Box 3 hedging strategies are important.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

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

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

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

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

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 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

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 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

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 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

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

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. What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. But the rest of us? Not so much.

Analysis 8

Analysis How To Tools Hedge 8