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. Facebook ads or search engine marketing might be appealing possibilities, but for now, they’re too much.

Webinar 13

Webinar How To Audience Hedge 13

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Hedge 314

Hedge Class Video Career 314

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 Along with a surprise halving of the dividend, Flannery announced a review of the portfolio that would see the divestitures of numerous historic GE businesses, which ended up including light bulbs, appliances, and locomotive engines.

TSR 9

TSR Company IPO Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

The more people use a particular search engine, the more the search engine’s algorithm can learn users’ preferences, the more relevant the search results will likely be, which in turn will likely attract others to the search engine, and the positive feedback continues. ” How Data-opolies Harm.

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” the CEO of the hedge fund yelled at one of his portfolio managers. But when he stepped into the meeting and looked at the faces of the engineers, many of whom didn’t even meet his glance, he took a breath and changed his tactic on the spot. “Why?” “Why would you increase that investment? Take a breath.

Hedge 8

Hedge Tactics CEO Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. Or they can develop conventional reservoirs where it will require long-term investments in new technologies to bring the cycle times and costs more in line with those of nimble shale producers. Re-evaluating buffers to a more uncertain environment.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. His response: “While I think using 13Fs to track hedge fund stock-pickers works great, in my mind it works less so for the activist guys.” Why’s that?

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

The company then dedicated engineering resources to add that quirky feature, a more cost-effective approach than engineering a complex suite of features as a hedge that at least one of them might address a real customer need.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 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. But the GE model is dead — and there’s a long list of possible suspects.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

One of her engineers, a key employee and the only one who understood how a critical software component worked, left the firm. One of my students at London Business School joined a hedge fund and was bummed when he was laid off at the start of the financial crisis. Her face fell and she deflated visibly.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

Take Philips Electronics with its lighting, medical equipment, and consumer electronics divisions; ThyssenKrupp with its steel, elevators, and engineering services units; or smaller companies such as Trinity Mirror, which offers newspapers, printing, and digital services. First, corporate C-suite executives are portfolio managers.

Strategy 8

Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2011

And the same's triply true for living a life that matters: if you were to invest in, for example, social businesses, instead of the equity of orthodox corporations, or to choose where to work not just based on the immediate paycheck, but on whether or not the boardroom valued making a difference a tiny bit more than which hedge-fund bots it was enriching (..)

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Crisis Bond Depreciation Hedge 20

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Here is another in the CONVERSATIONS AT EDGE series, in this instance a conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. “The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial and error nor “chance” and serendipity can be behind the gains in technology and empirical science attributed to them.

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Definition Technology Hedge Engineering 85

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The successful CEOs in our study were hyper-vigilant about threats around them (the paranoia part) and also took action to mitigate those threats, whether in the form of building buffers or hedging (the productive part). Prior to the Oslo terrorist attack, we saw the exact opposite of productive paranoia — a leisurely attitude.

Management 14

Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The season, time of day, and current weather can all act as valuable signals to the recommendation engine that decides who receives what content and when. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? You can start to take these billions of pieces of user-generated data and deliver highly pertinent information, all in milliseconds. More >>.

Directory 15

Directory Hedge Content Hotels 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A male engineer, for instance, earned $68,000, on average, while his female peer earned $65,817. Jim,” as he is known to all, not only did pioneering work in mathematics; he also founded Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that relied on scientists to make predictions and trade in global markets. Another finding: The 65.2%

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

These types of information can be used to conduct malicious activities such as social engineering, creating dossiers on high-profile figures (with the end game to disrupt their lives in a malicious way), stealing identities, damaging a corporate brand, and more.

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Graduation season is upon us — and that means approximately 700,000 U.S.

Brand 8

Brand How To Hedge Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

For example, hedge funds automatically filtering out bad data in the form of a negative value for trading volume, which can’t be negative.) The machine learning prediction engine with get things right on average but will reliably make mistakes. This sort of automation has been happening in businesses for decades.

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Hedge Examples 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Startups are an engine of prosperity, albeit a highly imperfect one. Tech-world denizen Jesper Andersen tweeted a similar sentiment: “Change ‘startup’ to ‘hedge fund,’ ‘ecstasy’ to ‘cocaine’, and ‘douche-bag’ to ‘douche bag’ and you too can see SF is just another Wall St.”

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

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. An important engine for economic growth is the creation of new enterprises.

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer. It’s a different kind of engineering.” It feels like a living, breathing thing. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 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

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 killed it!"

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

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 killed it!”

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Herbalife After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power The New York Times If you’re looking for the corporate-governance version of House of Cards, this is probably the closest you''ll get (though there''s no strategic murdering here, as far as I know). Worked like a charm. Crisis management Information & technology Technology'

McGregor 8

McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In one area, however, deep uncertainties exist which must cause even the most pro-China investors to want to hedge their bets. In sum, we see China making real progress in many areas by 2034. Abrami, Kirby, and McFarlan are the coauthors of the forthcoming book, Can China Lead?: China’s Next Great Transition An HBR Insight Center.

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers estimates that annually between a third and a half of all food produced is wasted worldwide. This is partly due to the tendency to grow more than needed as a hedge against weather and disease and fluctuating wholesale and retail orders. Tara Moore/Getty Images. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The season, time of day, and current weather can all act as valuable signals to the recommendation engine that decides who receives what content and when. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? You can start to take these billions of pieces of user-generated data and deliver highly pertinent information, all in milliseconds. More >>.

Directory 8

Directory Hedge Content Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. 2) What is culture worth? 3) What processes in an organization affect culture?

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I Doom and Gloom.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You might be an applied machine learning/AI engineer if your response to “I bet you couldn’t build a model that passes testing at 99.99999% accuracy” is “Watch me.” Engineering excellence is a must. To this end, one way to spot a good analyst is that they use softened, hedging language. The result?

Organization 15

Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

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.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Your current business is the performance engine. • Good Box 3 hedging strategies are important. You need to develop a process for hedging risk. Hasbro’s 1970s venture into Romper Room–branded nursery schools might have benefited from better testing and hedging.

Innovation 8

Innovation Management Hedge Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 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. That was the point of his famous requirement that every business had to be No.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The horrible irony: The very detail-oriented systems (and people) Dimon had put in place had obscured rather than surfaced his bank's horrible hedge. The executive responsible for the deliverable (but not the software engineering itself) felt something amiss.

Micromanagement 17

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 17