Remove Fashion Remove Hedge Remove Operations Remove Power
article thumbnail

The Top 15 Shows That Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Watch

Strategy Driven

Inspired by the bestselling book ‘#GirlBoss’ by Sophia Amoruso and based on her start-up story, this Netflix original shows how Sophia went from broke to running the multi-million dollar fashion empire, Nasty Gal. If you want a lesson in power struggles, Billions is the one of you. Set in New York, it tells the story of the U.S.

article thumbnail

How to Actually Put Your Data Analysis to Good Use

Harvard Business Review

The competition for talent will be especially intense for companies for whom advanced analytics forms a core part of their proposition — think e-commerce giants, hedge funds and complex system engineers. What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. The same is true for processing power.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

And Icahn, like Buffett, no longer has to worry about what is probably the biggest barrier to value-investing success — clients who abandon you when value falls out of fashion. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money.

Hedge 8
article thumbnail

What Great Data Analysts Do — and Why Every Organization Needs Them

Harvard Business Review

Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market. But in more sophisticated data operations, data-driven inspiration gets flagged for proper statistical follow-up. Data-driven inspiration is a powerful thing.