Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Eliminating stock-based compensation would help reduce the incentive for executive leadership to focus on the short term. 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.

Long-term 14

Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. Leadership in these organization demands humility and a willingness to convert trust in numbers into acts of faith. That was the challenge.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Update: Politico's Ben White did have a brief testimonial from hedge fund manager and Goldman client Whitney Tilson this morning.) Then the combination of bigger paychecks and higher college and grad school tuition began driving the best students into finance. Do you think our guys could have invented, say, credit default swaps?

Hedge 13

Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The hedge fund founded and run by billionaire Paul Singer just announced that it now owns 6.2% Its IPO in 1999 was a sensation ; by autumn 2000 its market capitalization topped $65 billion and the ratio of its stock price to the next year’s projected earnings was a staggering 483. It turned out to be a lower-than-anticipated sky.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Each year, FSG evaluates more than 100 scenarios that could disrupt our economic forecasts for 73 countries.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9