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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. 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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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Great insights Susan.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

One of the changes I document in the book is how Goldman drifted from a focus on ethical standards of behavior to legal ones — from what one “should” do to what one “can” do. I made recommendations on how to improve regulation. Compensation Ethics Finance' After the book was published, Dudley got in touch.

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Why the Fed Is So Wimpy

Harvard Business Review

That’s why rich people can invest in hedge funds while, for the most part, regular folks can’t. More recently, there’s been a concerted effort to take a more nuanced view of regulatory capture and how to counteract it. Ethics Finance Government' This won’t be an easy thing to fix.