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. The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Capitalism might be the greatest engine of prosperity and progress ever devised, but in recent years, individuals and communities have grown increasingly disgruntled with the implicit contract that governs the rights and responsibilities of business. Capitalism degenerates into narrow self-interest without a strong ethical foundation.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? By the end of the '80s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had realized, through rigorous analysis, that Microsoft needed to abandon its still-struggling new operation system, Windows, because of a memory flaw.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

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