Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

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. These companies trade on the stock market and are leveraged to the price of the underlying metals. Precious Metal ETFs.

Hedge 121

Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 121

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

Case Study 15

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

Case Study 13

Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 13

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

JUNE 30, 2017

How Different Industries Might Fare. companies in the automotive, agricultural, and textile industries by as much as one percentage point (assuming no pass-through of higher costs to consumers). Companies in these industries tend to rely heavily on imported parts and raw materials from Mexico or Canada traded at NAFTA terms.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. 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.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. In short, we need the world’s biggest investors to connect with the world’s nimblest investment-technology startups.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. The industry was born in its current form, however, when the first venture capital firms were founded in the middle of the twentieth century.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Startups such as Wealthfront, Personal Capital, and Betterment launched robo-advisors as industry disruptors, and incumbents, such as Schwab’s (Intelligent Advisor), Vanguard (Personal Advisor Services), Morgan Stanley and BlackRock have joined the fray with their own hybrid machine/advisor solutions. will grow to U.S. $5

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. Except that the performance that they’re rewarding is industry performance, not company performance. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As one industry insider told us, “I am in the business of making money, I don’t care who you are, as long as you can help me in that goal.” As one investment professional told us, “When I see a name like Mary, it sticks out because there are so few [women] in this industry.”

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

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% Mahathir stood his ground, not just at Davos but in the financial markets, by refusing the IMF's aid, reducing Malaysia's interest rates, and restricting currency trading.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 10

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

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?

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

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. The timing for these reforms is no accident.

Politics 8

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 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 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 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 8

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 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

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. 2, behind the late Steve Jobs, with an industry-adjusted shareholder return of 12,266% during his tenure. billion bond issue just before the debt-market meltdown of autumn 2008. In Morten T. How has Bezos done this?

Training 9

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Well, maybe not quite as a cause : Drexler, the organization’s head of investors industries, takes pains to note that “we’re not trying to be the industry association for impact investors.” A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Global leaders pride themselves on having many connections across industries and sectors. As they’d flown to Peoria together on Air Force One, Owens had explicitly stated that the layoffs were an outcome of an international market crash, and the stimulus plan was irrelevant to this particular factory. Playing golf with Jack Nicklaus.

Ethics 8

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Holding people to account for these and related issues is an essential element of a broad approach to risk management inside financial services (and industrial) firms. Such determination is subject to ratification by (and for an award to the CEO would be made by) the [Board's] Compensation & Management Development Committee.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. Armed with a hypothesis that the stock market was undervaluing digital, we sought to create the largest known repository of digital data on U.S. Southwest has 13% of the U.S.

Airlines 8

Airlines Hedge Metrics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Having pioneered the smartphone industry with its Blackberry, RIM is dangerously adrift. Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Alas, during industry turmoil muddling through may be impossible.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. And like any industry, the ICO arena has had its fair share of outright scams, pump and dumps, and blatant Ponzi schemes. Insight Center. Distributed Database.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

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. You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

But such expectations are unrealistic in many industries. As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Neustar’s MarketShare software makes it possible for customers to measure the effects of their marketing programs and compare them to other firms. At the same time that data mirrors and scoring have emerged in the corporate world, capital markets are becoming increasingly interested in the analysis of alternative data sets.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 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. GE has its strengths in the management of large-scale industries.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Currencies imploding, markets fluctuating, politicians dithering, economies stagnating, societies fracturing, unrest spreading. Uneven, stratified, exclusionary economic development, accompanied by economic flatlining? Industrial output is not a human outcome. Welcome to the winter of our discontent — again.

Politics 15

Politics Hedge GDP Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Eight years ago I published a book, The Medici Effect , that examines how and why groundbreaking ideas occur at the intersection of different cultures, industries, and disciplines. Once the book had been written, I had to market it. 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

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The wealthy classes also sought stability over market-oriented efficiency and growth, not unlike Lord Grantham in the television show "Downton Abbey.". As historians have increasingly appreciated, technology is usually a secondary cause in economic development.

Class 8

Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

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.

Mentor 8

Mentor Hedge Human Capital Career 8