Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Sheelah Kolhatkar, in a cover story (and what a classy cover it is) in the new Bloomberg Businessweek , argues that the great alternative to plain-vanilla equity and debt investing — the hedge fund — is more or less over, too. stock market returns outpace economic growth, that money has to come from somewhere. So when U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. are making coal plants more expensive, regulation is not truly impeding global fossil fuel use. That’s a mighty big “if.” Ultimately, the political will for fundamental change is lacking.

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NGO Energy Morale Price 9

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

Bond Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. 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?

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Bond Education Finance Video 11

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? The UK hardly seemed like an alternative high-growth market.

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars. 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.

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Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 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. Financial markets are like that, Soros goes on. 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

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. vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6%

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Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

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. Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. billion to $3.4 And what risks did he run?

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 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 Terranola’s market cap skyrocketed to $8.1

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

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. It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

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. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed?

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. 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.

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ESOP Company Cooper IAM 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. In their pursuit of margin, marketers sought market power even to the point of monopoly, requiring antitrust laws to cry stop at the last moment of the end game.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. 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.

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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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CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 11

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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Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12