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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Why an Activist Hedge Fund Cares Whether Appleā€™s Devices Are Bad for Kids

Harvard Business Review

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. ” Thus, the issue isn’t one of time frames per se.

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The Key to Adaptable Companies Is Relentlessly Developing People

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to preparing organizations for a complex, high-speed future, many people who work in those organizations, or in management science, talk about the imperative for “ continuous improvement ” in operations. One crucial measure of this success is adaptability.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

LTCM’s model continued to predict that it was properly hedged against a potential Russian default; the insight that it actually needed — that it was under-hedged and exposed to liquidity risk — could only have come from outside of the model. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

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Oilā€™s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Hereā€™s Why

Harvard Business Review

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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Here Are All the Reasons Itā€™s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

Harvard Business Review

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. reducing traffic to an independent app by making it harder to find on its search engine or app store.

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Corporate Strategy Is a Fool's Errand

Harvard Business Review

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.