Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

Bond 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. Commodities-trading rules and customs that date back to the pre-financial era may not fit the more aggressive tactics of hedge funds and investment banks. Ethics Finance Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Soon after, when Khan began tutoring his niece in mathematics while working at a hedge fund, he hit upon the idea of developing short video tutorials on YouTube. How did Sal Khan finance his venture? First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

are making coal plants more expensive, regulation is not truly impeding global fossil fuel use. And partly because of America’s intransigence, 19 years of global negotiations on binding limits on carbon have led nearly nowhere. That’s a mighty big “if.” Ultimately, the political will for fundamental change is lacking.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management. CEOs and CFOs should consider rethinking who is managing risk in their global supply chains. Because the fact that value is not guaranteed in the future lessens value in the present.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." What is so special about where a global organization headquarters itself? After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations.

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Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

It has spurred the growth of an entire industry that exists only to exploit volatility: the hedge fund business. This post is part of a series leading up to the annual Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 2014 in Vienna, Austria. Economy Finance' That dark side has not gone unnoticed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Although former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis made eloquent appeals about the need to rethink macro, he said very little about changing how the economy is run. contraction today, there was no one in the finance ministry actually making policy. The record on economic policy-making is equally disappointing.

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

But by the end of the decade, the advocates of more rapid growth had pretty much won out in the name of better serving clients in an increasingly globalized world. They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S billion to $3.4

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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 a tanker consisted of one big tank of oil, the sloshing liquid would soon capsize the vessel, Soros explains.

Banking 14

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I Doom and Gloom. Still Henry refused to respond.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. And by the late 1990's investment banks and hedge funds were in the business of betting for and against currencies. This is the "hot money" that Mahathir referred to.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

But bitcoin has been extremely successful at solving the problem it was designed for: allowing a global network to securely transact and exchange value without the need for a costly intermediary. Based on the research of the Fletcher School at Tufts University's Institute for Business in the Global Context and Planet eBiz.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Secondly, they are global instruments — not national ones — and they are funded using bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies that are not controlled by any central authority or bank.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

That business, or any other institution, dictates life to you (Oh, wait, that's what they already do — just not in ways that benefit anyone who isn't already the Gangnam-Style scion of a mummified vampire hedge fund quadrillionaire). Here's what I do mean. That institutions focus on outcomes, not just outputs.

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Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. A vast, globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, it is capable of recording anything of value. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Third, as a result of strong performances by worker- and employee-owned companies, it is becoming easier for workers to overcome arguably the biggest hurdle to worker buyouts: financing. Already, U.S. Already, U.S. And companion bills developed to enable the U.S. To encourage worker buyouts, more awareness-raising initiatives are required.

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ESOP Company Cooper IAM 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Apple's offers are more highly valued than its competitors '— largely for intangible reasons ranging from design to sustainable disposability — and have extremely broad appeal globally.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea. Asia-Pacific: China Sea Flashpoints Could Obstruct the Global Supply Chain.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Jana Partners, the activist hedge fund, isn’t known as a tree-hugging hippie sort of firm. We are witnessing a big, transitional moment – akin to the transition from analog to digital, or the realization that globalization is a really big deal. Ryan McVay/Getty Images. Big firms face different incentives, for a few reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

If the auguries of "strategic due diligence" suggest a favorable outcome and bankers are willing to lend lots to help finance the deal, the PE masters of the universe acquire the property and put in place a "performance improvement plan" to make their new asset more profitable. PE people certainly pay themselves well.

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