Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. billion, Dalio started investing at the age of 12 and his life has revolved around finance. That’s the effect success has on people. You do not climb your way up without meeting people who have mixed feelings about you.

Hedge 50

Hedge Leadership Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Hedge funds are playing the role of Wall Street villain again. Then came the November 22, 2010 raids of three hedge fund headquarters by FBI agents who seized documents and confiscated BlackBerries. Now authorities are serving subpoenas on other, larger hedge and mutual funds. This time, the charge is rampant insider trading.

Hedge 14

Hedge Ethics Incentives Environment 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This is something where a lot of small businesses fall into murky waters because they either don’t invest the time or finances into their imagery. It is tempting to go for every avenue so you can hedge your bets, but it is the corporate equivalent of spreading yourself thin.

Marketing Strategy 52

Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Brand 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are two stories you can tell about finance in America. ” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates. .” ” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates. eBay is a recent example.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The increasing inequality between companies is sharpest in finance, insurance, and real estate, followed by communications. 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. And it is most pronounced for the highest paid workers. Making the top 0.1%

Bryson 11

Bryson Company Hedge Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

Company 14

Company Finance Price IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So when people believe that they have a strong understanding of a subject — say, finance — they tend to overclaim more, asserting that they know concepts that researchers present to them, even when the concepts are made up. I recently encountered an illustrative case of overclaiming that could translate easily across industries.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Marketing Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. A key constraining resource in traditional venture is a VC investor's time.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

According to Mills’ research, “most [peer-to-peer lenders] are large institutional investors such as hedge funds and investment banks.” Finance Small/medium business Technology' But the “peer-to-peer” moniker is misleading – this isn’t crowdfunding. ” That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

IPO 8

IPO Due Diligence Credit Scoring Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

Hedge against the downside. Understanding the potential risks enables you to do a much better job hedging against them. If you’re planning to launch a startup, for instance, your colleagues might have highlighted concerns about your finance skills. How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control. Mark Bonchek.

Career 8

Career Hedge CFO Advice 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable.

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. insider trading by hedge funds. Ethics Finance Government' have centered on. Bharara has not filed charges (yet?)

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

I think he got the Nobel nod (instead of somebody like Andy Lo , or Mordechai Kurz , or Roman Frydman ) because he was (1) very early to the game, (2) a macroeconomist (the Nobel people generally seem more comfortable with macro than with finance), and (3) most suited to being shoehorned into a narrative of steady scientific progress.

CAPM 8

CAPM Finance Price Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

million in one year from the hedge fund D.E. This gap between what employees of Goldman and its Wall Street peers (including hedge funds, private equity firms, etc.) The increasing rewards to work in finance were for a long time defended as evidence that the financial sector was creating more value than the rest of the economy.

Shaw 13

Shaw Hedge Decisionmaking Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Our data shows, for instance, that 18% of multimillionaires work in finance, while only 1% of them are professors and scientists.

Policies 8

Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 8

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.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

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. His response: “While I think using 13Fs to track hedge fund stock-pickers works great, in my mind it works less so for the activist guys.” Apple Finance Skill vs. luck'

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

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'

Cost 8

Cost Hedge Fraser Price 8

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. Compensation Economy Finance'

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Freedom Financial provides five key areas of finance that are critical for entrepreneurs to have a greater chance at success. Keep business and personal finances separate. Once your business starts growing, Freedom Financial recommends separating business and personal finances, is essential. Proper preparation for lean months.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Tips Succession Management 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. It printed money while its financial models, based on cutting-edge option theory, worked, with annualized returns after fees of over 40% in its second and third years. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Without theory to tell us how the rules are changing, many tools of management and finance seem to break down. Disruptive innovation Finance' But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory?

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

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

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' But I’m not sure what’s really gained by calling such events “bubbles.”. Not that it’s really up to me, of course.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

The former executive director of one institution told me that he looked forward to his appearances before the state legislature’s finance committee because “they were opportunities to keep politicians informed and keeping them informed is a way to keep them at bay.” We pay competitively but no hedge fund-size packages.”

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance. Data scientists spend an inordinate amount of time cleaning data; IT expends enormous effort lining up systems that “don’t talk.” Such hidden data factories are expensive. They form the basis for IBM’s $3.1

Cost 8

Cost Hedge Quality Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Firms are realizing what microfinance has known for a while: Local self-policing groups, or village headmen who police honor codes, can hedge cash flows in far-flung places. Toyota and Yamaha have found motorbike customers through such social group structures.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. These low-cost and reliable sources of funds are from taxpayer-insured deposits and the Federal Reserve’s discount window.

Banking 11

Banking Credit Scoring Stage-Gate Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

That’s why rich people can invest in hedge funds while, for the most part, regular folks can’t. Ethics Finance Government' Maybe there were some incriminating details behind the Goldman executive’s statement that alarmed Segarra and were left out of the story, but on the face of it there’s nothing to see here.

Banking 9

Banking Conflict of Interest Policies Hedge 9

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. Many leading companies are already moving in this direction, adding finance PhD's and actuaries to procurement and supply chain teams. This reduction in value is present and represents a cost today , not tomorrow.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

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. Economy Finance' So efficiency doesn’t inherently produce smoothness and stability in prices; it produces spikiness, the dark side of efficiency and expectations. That dark side has not gone unnoticed.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Many companies face quarterly or even more immediate pressure from their shareholders (increasingly made up of hedge funds, program traders, and day traders) to deliver short-term performance. The residual problem I'm talking about is corporate short-termism.

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Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 14