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. Once a decision has been made, it's up to the team to figure out how to make it work. consensus kills teams [.]

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

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.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions. How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control. Hedge against the downside. Understanding the potential risks enables you to do a much better job hedging against them. You and Your Team Series. Decision Making. Stop Second-Guessing Your Decisions at Work. Carolyn O’Hara.

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Career Hedge CFO Advice 8

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'

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

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. More recently, there’s been a concerted effort to take a more nuanced view of regulatory capture and how to counteract it. Ethics Finance Government' This won’t be an easy thing to fix.

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Banking Conflict of Interest Hedge Policies 9

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. SME lending can remain a big business for banks, but only with deliberate choices about where to play and how to win.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I made recommendations on how to improve regulation. Compensation Ethics Finance' After the book was published, Dudley got in touch. I met with him and his people, and discussed what I had learned in my study of sociology and, in particular, my in-depth study of Goldman.

Banking 9

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

You probably do want to accord different weights to the arguments of different people, although deciding how to do so (past track record? clarity of argument?) In any case, it should be clear that you don't want to just let the loudest voices win. When that happens, everybody loses.

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Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

Fund managers, equity analysts, hedge fund managers, and so on can analyze the numbers perfectly well and listen to the PowerPoint presentation of the CEO on his or her road show. First, corporate C-suite executives are portfolio managers. But they differ from fund managers in a significant way: they actually know the business.

Strategy 8

Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

This friend also studied engineering in college and knows how to code. So if you feel uncomfortable as an investor, here are two bullets to pack in your pistol: Investing is about financing dreams. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home. Investing also finances the kind of world we want.

Finance 9

Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And Lars has taken some of these ideas and applied them in finance.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Beyond the allure of today's latest fads and fashions, beyond the advice I and others can give you about money, sex, and power and how to get it all, fast, here are four essential, timeless truths. Let's speak to one another, simply, as passengers heading to same destination. Life is shorter than any of us truly expect. Here's what I do mean.

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Media Fashion IPO Brand 8