Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

By Guest Authors from Booz & Company : Partner, Paul Leinwand and Managing Director, Cesare Mainardi . Among the problematic symptoms and by-products of incoherence – of paying too much attention to external positioning and succumbing to pressure for excessive short-term growth – companies are often: .

Strategy 178

Strategy Short-term Competitive Advantage Fixed Assets 178

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” Photo: Mastercard.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

When executives complain about activist hedge funds, it’s often under the cover of short-termism. Keusch looked at the impact of activist hedge funds from 1994 to 2012, to see what impact they had on management. That view isn’t well supported by the evidence.

CEO 8

CEO Hedge Reputation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Whether the initial reaction in November was insufficient, or the frenzy in May was irrational, one thing was clear: The positioning of news, not just its newness, plays a pivotal role in how financial markets incorporate information. Hedge funds are also much more likely to be the first to get a piece of news.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Today's shareholders are relentless in demanding that executives "maximize shareholder value." The third is to make sure that executives aren't compensated in ways that make them too sensitive to short-term shareholders' demands. This powerful minority is activist hedge funds. Compensation.

Long-term 10

Long-term Hedge Strategy Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

What’s behind rising income inequality: the pay difference between janitors and CEOs, or the gap between how well different employers pay each position? So rising inequality is less about every CEO getting paid more than it is about the top finance executives leaving their peers in the dust. Income inequality in the U.S.

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Bryson Hedge Company Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” the CEO of the hedge fund yelled at one of his portfolio managers. ” The portfolio manager muttered a weak defense which the CEO promptly and easily tore to shreds. When the manager left his office, the CEO turned to me, exasperated. He knew he needed their positive energy now more than ever.

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Hedge Tactics CEO Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

Hedge fund activist Bill Ackman posed that question recently in his fund’s annual letter to investors. At the same time, clients withdrew $207 billion overall from actively managed funds, according to the research firm Morningstar. In the same way, index funds don’t selectively buy more shares when managers perform well.

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Hedge Proposal Policies Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

I want to see the positions!" 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. Seeing the data raw instead of analytically pre-chewed can have enormous impact on executive perceptions. I want to see everything!".

Micromanagement 15

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. There is evidence that say-on-pay votes have led British companies to make executive paychecks more sensitive to poor performance. When it comes to executive pay in particular, these people are a deeply compromised bunch.

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Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Research has also found that, in other evaluative domains, like teacher evaluations, men are more often described as “ brilliant ” and “genius,” and called out for their ideas, while women tend to be acknowledged for their kind demeanor and execution. she shouldn’t need any supervision). Not necessarily.

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Letter Hedge Short-term Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. In other words, these managers are rewarded less for outperforming their competitors.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

While top-level jobs are tough on everyone, the transition to senior management comes with extra challenges for women. Over the last 17 years, I have served as an executive coach to hundreds of senior women leaders, many of them working in heavily male-dominated environments such as banking, the military, and the police force.

Energy 10

Energy Hedge Parcell Career 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In my latest book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism can Learn from the NFL , I wrote about the negative impact of executive stock-based compensation on corporate short-termism. Eliminating stock-based compensation would help reduce the incentive for executive leadership to focus on the short term.

Long-term 12

Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

As executives who have spent our lives assessing and implementing digital technology in every type of organization, we often get asked by them: “What should I learn today so that I’ll have a job in the future? Product managers that I previously thought were hopeless became effective. Whose will be gored?

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Skills Morale Ethics System 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

When my mother graduated from college in 1972, she interviewed at an investment bank where a manager told her that for certain positions, women were interviewed but never hired. I have heard directly from male executives at two prominent Wall Street firms that they are moving their female direct reports to report to female bosses.

Finance 8

Finance Policies Banking CFO 8

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

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. After all, if the client or the company’s executive suite can’t trust you, why should they?

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Although these directions sound simple, they can be extremely difficult to execute in real life. He manages a $2 billion hedge fund that had a terrible quarter — two of his largest positions, both energy stocks, dropped 25%, turning what would have been a lackluster result into a disaster. Managing People Book.

Letter 8

Letter Price Hedge Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Imagine that you had 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes at the next executive staff meeting to get your message across. I once sat through a lengthy presentation where the senior manager politely asked the presenter to summarize his point in one or two sentences. Honestly, many of us would be flustered by the limitations.

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Audience Hedge Consensus Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2018

People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error. Let’s go back to Alex as an example of how to execute this. What can you do if you, like Alex, want to face your fear of screwing up and push beyond it to success?

How To 11

How To Learning-by-Doing CEO Hedge 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

CEOs live in fear of activist hedge funds, and politicians worry about their effects on workers. The more positive public perception of activists in Japan marks a dramatic change. Rather than berating management publicly, these funds have led quiet discussions behind closed doors. In the U.S.,

ROE 8

ROE Construction Hedge Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Aimee, a senior executive at a global financial services firm, had carefully cultivated her network of sponsors and supporters over 15 years, but recently, she watched helplessly as waves of market dislocation, structural reorganizations, and headcount reductions battered the industry and shredded her connections.

Mentor 8

Mentor Hedge Human Capital Career 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. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. After all, if the client or the company’s executive suite can’t trust you, why should they?

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Big decisions have to be framed, then informed by data, then thought through for execution.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

No trend for labor is positive. In seven years, an executive earning a million-dollar salary went from keeping $340,000 after federal taxes to keeping $725,000. High unemployment has persisted in the jobless recovery. Worse still, it is arguable that its longtime friend in Washington has abandoned traditional labor. By 1988 it was 28%.

CIO 8

CIO Hedge CEO Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. We show that this position is supported in cases of financially immaterial ESG proposals.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

Companies can do five things to hedge their bets in turbulent times while opening up options for the future: 1. Management has made promises to senior executives about what a project will achieve, and fixed costs have built up because they looked prudent in comparison to planned revenues.

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Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

sustainability-related terms in the trademarks of large public firms and acquisitions of sustainability-focused small businesses), and found that the prevalence of these broader, generic CSR efforts in an industry positively predicted the number of new B Corporations emerging in that industry.

Company 8

Company Hedge Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And isn’t lowering costs exactly what managers focused on shareholder value are supposed to be doing? Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. Understanding how to manage reputation risk starts with understanding the elements of reputation. We’d like to propose a solution.

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Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Within two years after becoming chief executive of General Electric in 1981, Jack Welch completed one of his most far-reaching initiatives: reducing the number of GE business units from about 150 to 15. A conglomerate, by definition, is a large corporation with diversified product lines , owned and run by the same management.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Hedge Funds will love our data — they will practically buy any set of data that might give them a potential edge”. Fortunately, the organizations that took the effort to truly understand the value of their data were able to execute appropriately. How do you ensure that your execution is commensurate with the revenue opportunity?

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Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

After managing a sleeve of a successful hedge fund in London for five years, and building ample savings, Colin was ready for his own shop. Both Colin and Serena should have more carefully and conservatively forecast the timeline for expected revenues and managed their costs accordingly. The first is Colin.

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Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 8