Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Your current business is the performance engine. Success in each box requires a different set of skills, attitudes, practices, and leadership. • Good Box 3 hedging strategies are important. You need to develop a process for hedging risk. To be sure, the present is vitally important.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. 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 14

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 14

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.” Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. It feels like a living, breathing thing.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

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

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

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

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

MARCH 14, 2016

In 1987, a Portuguese audio engineer named Fernando Duarte took a friend, South African entrepreneur Robbie Brozin, to a small takeout restaurant in a suburb of Johannesburg. And you also can’t put customers first until senior leadership meetings are filled with the voices of the customers and front line.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

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