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?". billion by 2030. Reaching this vast middle won't be easy, I said.

Marketing 13

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

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 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

producers to lower their prices in foreign markets, raising demand for U.S. 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. Any export subsidy would allow U.S. Three Types of Action to Consider.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Yet the unfortunate side effect of uncompetitive markets is that consumers pay higher prices. Index funds have given millions of people relatively low-cost access to the stock market. These developments in the retirement system change who is in control of Corporate America. These schemes handed their investors huge profits.

Banking 8

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

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

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.

Energy 8

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

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

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.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. In addition, it has to contend with vast, inherited industries, and education- and labour-market structures that will take many years to reform.

Politics 8

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

With the first approach, companies seek significant mismatches between their existing organizational capabilities and the markets they serve. They ask: Where are opportunities to introduce something totally unexpected in a market we already serve, with an offering we can deliver tomorrow with little additional investment?

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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.

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Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 10

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 13

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. It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 14

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. stock market returns outpace economic growth, that money has to come from somewhere. So when U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

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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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. vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6%

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Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

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. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 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

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. ” At Omidyar Network , we’re excited by this shift in thinking.

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Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. 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. Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy.

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Bond Education Finance Video 10

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. It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector. Related Video.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 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

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. This group should represent a variety functions within the organization exposed to Brexit: supply chain, channel managers, procurement, marketing, sales, public affairs, governance, and financial controlling, among others. How to Plan for Brexit.

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Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. The demand for my ideas surged and soon went global. They partnered up with IBM to develop OS/2 , and decimated the Windows team.

Succession 16

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Aimee, a senior executive at a global financial services firm, had carefully cultivated her network of sponsors and supporters over 15 years, but recently, she watched helplessly as waves of market dislocation, structural reorganizations, and headcount reductions battered the industry and shredded her connections.

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Mentor Hedge Human Capital Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Given the growing sensitivity to widening income inequality in many developed economies, it is no wonder that criticism of soaring executive pay has intensified. Exemplars of moderation on pay can be found in different markets. A board adviser recently shared with me that directors of one U.S.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

One thing we can say with confidence is that uncertainty will remain high for some time in politics, macroeconomics, and business, at both global and national levels. In malleable environments, such as in newly created or disrupted markets, they will need to envision and realize new possibilities. Invest in Resilience. Modularity.

Strategy 9

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. A vast, globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, it is capable of recording anything of value.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. The social impact funds want to support it for social reasons, whereas hedge funds and others are recognizing that the superior resiliency and performance of worker-owned firms can improve their returns. Already, U.S.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How is extreme consolidation changing global business? How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Rule the World.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea.

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