HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Businesses and companies now need to rethink how to manage post-covid work trends like their remote workforce, hiring policies, skills, and experience needs. Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better. The Covid-19 pandemic has reset the way the world works.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. It gives you much time and room to focus on the bigger picture of managing your business. Secondly, employees are more productive when they are left to their jobs with little to no micro-management. Be open-minded.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

By Guest Authors from Booz & Company : Partner, Paul Leinwand and Managing Director, Cesare Mainardi . As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. . Winners, on the other hand, define the fundamental identity of the company by developing a clear idea of what they do best and how they create value for customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners , a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to Apple’s board of directors that may change the future of activist investing. Tim Ellis/Getty Images. A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

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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.

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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.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” That requires us to invest in developing both current and future skills. Louis to develop a customized, cyber skills program for employees.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. After all, the World Bank estimates that the number of middle class consumers in emerging markets will jump from 420 million today to more than 1.2

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Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value. The leadership ratings index we have developed has two dimensions, or domains: individual and organizational.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. The other is medium-size businesses with 20 to about 100 employees; the purchaser at these places is a senior manager, not the owner.". "I 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. The other is medium-size businesses with 20 to about 100 employees; the purchaser at these places is a senior manager, not the owner.". "I 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.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Yet the unfortunate side effect of uncompetitive markets is that consumers pay higher prices. Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. Index funds have given millions of people relatively low-cost access to the stock market. trillion in assets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Senior leaders who have learned to manage in uncertainty focus on the few risks that matter most. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. What about innovation?

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Or at least the market''s. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. It also doesn''t follow from Bebchuk, Brav, and Jiang''s evidence that more hedge fund activism would necessarily be a good thing. I''m not joining in.

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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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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

JANUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. ” Don’t just come up with a clever notion; make sure people actually want it before you spend a lot of money developing it.

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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. But right now that’s not happening.

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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? We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Developed during World War II, CARVER (then one letter shorter and known as CARVE) was originally used by analysts to determine where bomber pilots could most effectively drop their munitions on enemy targets. (One One of the most overused expressions thrown around by wannabe “Wall Street Rambos” is business is war.

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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.

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Proposal Short-term Advertising 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. 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 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Interference by elected officials — from imposition of local economic development obligations to excessive constraints on head count and compensation that impede recruitment of talented staff — has contributed to poor investment choices, higher total costs, diminished organizations, and disappointing performance at some institutions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

As a hedge fund manager who applied data-driven trading strategies once said, “You can spend endless time and resources only to find eventually a bug in your data.”. Using predictive models of demand developed during growth years or for a price sensitive market segment may fail miserably when market conditions change.

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Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices. There are clear signs of a potential shift in energy sourcing and consumption—and managers of IT and services operating in the cloud should start paying attention to how they can contribute. Certain states and countries are offering good deals.

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Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 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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Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. Given the general underrepresentation of women among investment professionals, especially in hedge funds, it was not surprising that only about 4.2% Tooga/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Managers and boards are often pushed by investors, fund managers, and analysts to focus intently on a single measure of success, such as shareholder value or profit, and then they do everything they can to maximize it. Companies should be managed much more holistically. In short, we had to be a bit myopic to survive.

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Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In the sense that financial markets and the economy in general are far more fragile than most mainstream economists contemplated before 2008, there was a bit of unlearning done in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 1987 stock market crash was a scare. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S. I know I believed it.

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Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

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". Gender Leadership Managing people Managing yourself' households. Today''s work requires a new leadership paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. 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. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. public companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

As a hedge fund manager who applied data-driven trading strategies once said, “You can spend endless time and resources only to find eventually a bug in your data.” Using predictive models of demand developed during growth years or for a price sensitive market segment may fail miserably when market conditions change.

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