Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Studies from Columbia''s Motivation Science Center have shown that prevention-focused people work more slowly and deliberately, seek reliability over "coolness" or luxury in products, and prefer conservative investments to higher-yielding but less certain ones. This is no longer ironic, when understood from the vantage of prevention focus.).

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Tversky Hedge Banking 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

This data is both financial (revenues, profits, growth) and non-financial (customer sentiment, employee engagement, marketing effectiveness, product feedback, and partner ecosystems). These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. If they're compartmentalized, the risk of crisis is much lower than if all sorts of financial products and institutions are allowed to mix together in a giant sloshfest.

Banking 14

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making. You and Your Team Series.

Ethics 8

Ethics Training Biotechnology Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

For instance, certifying firms often highlighted how B corporation certification would help them stand out “in the midst of a ‘greenwash’ revolution” among large companies, and “help consumers sort through the marketing hype to find businesses and products that are truly socially and environmentally responsible.”

Company 8

Company Hedge Short-term Long-term 8