Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, investors can use physical precious metals as a hedge against currency devaluation or inflation. These assets can also be used as a store of value and a potential hedge against geopolitical risks. Both can be a hedge against inflation. These investments are also a good hedge against inflation.

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Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 122

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Companies that develop a strategy for these uncertainties will be able to pivot faster than the competition when details about a new trade agreement become clear. Options and hedges. Leadership teams that develop strategic options and hedges for a variety of future scenarios navigate better when new developments unfold.

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Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

These developments in the retirement system change who is in control of Corporate America. To distinguish correlation from causation, we use BlackRock’s 2009 acquisition of Barclays Global Investors (BGI). Recently, authorities have taken on hedge funds, alleging they violated this regulation.

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Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Globally, it equates to 2% of all annual emissions linked to climate change. If the world is to become ever more efficient and reach global climate goals, internet power will need to play its part. Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices.

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Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

The enormity of the challenges confronting pension funds — including substantial deficits, a tumultuous global economy, and a low-return environment — means that they need to be able to focus on maximizing investment returns without distraction. We pay competitively but no hedge fund-size packages.”

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Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The topic — part of a series on innovation sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development Board and coordinated by Harvard Business Review — was "What's the Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets: Target Customers at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid?". You also need to re-think how you organize.

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Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 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.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Hedge against uncertainty. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career.

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Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

As The Economist recently observed : “More than 90 groups of scientists are now developing hypothesis-generation software. Global enterprises and entrepreneurs alike will be able to use big datasets to generate business hypotheses around innovation and new value creation. Or, more accurately, hypotheses worth testing.

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Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Only a few days before, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor-Jones created a stir by remarking at a conference that women will never rival men as traders because babies are a "focus killer". Madisch realized that science needed a global community where the work took precedence over egos. households.

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Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

” We collected data from a private online knowledge-sharing platform where buy-side (hedge fund, mutual fund) investment professionals (analysts, portfolio managers) share their investment recommendations to buy and sell a given security, along with the analysis supporting their position, with other members of this platform.

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Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

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. To be sure, robots will help people develop these types of skills, but a person – preferably you – will possess them.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

This service was fundamentally new for South American customers, though obviously not new for the global firm. 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. Modify mindset.

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Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Global climate change is not an area of controversy in China. We expect with significant government subsidies that over the next two decades, Chinese firms will emerge as the global leaders in clean energy. It is a responsible member of many global organizations, but not a leader of them in the broadest sense. China Economy'

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Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

While the 1% make an easy and perhaps well-deserved target, actually solving the problem of economic inequality calls for addressing the difficult task of developing a workforce with 21st-century skills. The Global Digital Economy. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

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Policies Technology Hedge Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

As one chief information security officer for a global bank said, "If we did all the security checks we'd like to before connecting with new hedge fund customers, they would just take their business across the street.". Unfortunately, though, it's all too easy to grind your business to a halt with doctrinaire security policies.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Saudi Arabia’s vast global role on oil markets as a major producer, exporter, and decision-maker within OPEC is reciprocal; the country relies on oil exports for over 90% of its government revenue, making the Saudi budget, and hence the state itself, exceptionally dependent on this one source of revenue.

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Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 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. Financial repression doesn''t sound like a good thing, and in some ways it isn''t. So here''s the big if.

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Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Global leaders pride themselves on having many connections across industries and sectors. To borrow a term from Wharton management professor Michael Useem, Owens is most definitely a member of the global elite’s “ inner circle.”. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar.

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Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Soon after, when Khan began tutoring his niece in mathematics while working at a hedge fund, he hit upon the idea of developing short video tutorials on YouTube. That’s great but the sums involved are modest compared to the $200 trillion in global financial assets.

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Bond Education Finance Video 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. The conflict between the IMF and Malaysia was a sign of a tipping point in the developed economies, shifting from a world of capital scarcity to one of abundance.

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Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. But businesses and professions that have been around for years tend to develop codes or ethics or at least norms of acceptable behavior. hedge funds? scam artists?

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

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. Luckily, global antitrust enforcement can help.

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Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes.

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Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Today, business leaders are not only trying to address community and global problems earlier in their lives; they are also questioning the traditional divide between commerce and philanthropy. The drive for more and better data and analysis on the efficacy of programs is now widely accepted as best practice.

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Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. And amidst all today’s calls for debt forgiveness, people seem to forget that Greece did enjoy the biggest write-off in global economic history, when the 2012 bailout saw Greek-issued private debt cut by over 50%.

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

But bitcoin has been extremely successful at solving the problem it was designed for: allowing a global network to securely transact and exchange value without the need for a costly intermediary. Based on the research of the Fletcher School at Tufts University's Institute for Business in the Global Context and Planet eBiz.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Over this combined quarter-century of experience, I developed three rules for managing top-end talent. A top consultant, one of the firm’s 15 or so global account managers, approached me to ask for paternity leave (a benefit that’s now fairly standard, but 20-odd years ago was rare).

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Management Class Talent Management Fashion 14

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. What tactics or capabilities might we develop to earn some slack from investors?

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Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Secondly, they are global instruments — not national ones — and they are funded using bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies that are not controlled by any central authority or bank. ” Many of them are in China, but there are also hedge funds and bitcoin investment funds who hold massive amounts of bitcoin.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

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Price Team Sports Franchising 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.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8