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. have centered on. Bharara has not filed charges (yet?)

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

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. While many of these operations happen automatically, human beings play a vital role in designing experiments and reviewing data traces to continue to learn and evolve the design of the machine. kenneth andersson FOR HBR.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 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

JANUARY 12, 2018

CSA Images/Printstock Collection/Getty Images. Does a robot manage your money? For many of us, the answer is yes. Online and algorithmic investment and financial advice is easy to come by these days, usually under the moniker of “robo-advisor.” will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 7 trillion by the year 2025 from about U.S.$300

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

And, when political turmoil in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the Mideast erupted, many businesses could only watch and wait to learn what it would mean for their supply chains. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 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. It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then.

Banking 10

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. That’s hard.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

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. Vulture capitalism ," as Governor Perry has suggested?

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. Each domain consists of five factors: Individual: Personal proficiency: To what extent do leaders demonstrate the personal qualities to be an effective leader (e.g.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Culture relates to what “should” I do, and not to what “can” I do. I’m also hoping that I had something to do with them. One of the changes I document in the book is how Goldman drifted from a focus on ethical standards of behavior to legal ones — from what one “should” do to what one “can” do.

Banking 8

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. The tricky question is what to do about risk. But how do you do that? Instead, what you need to do is scenario analysis.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In my latest book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism can Learn from the NFL , I wrote about the negative impact of executive stock-based compensation on corporate short-termism. This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System.

Long-term 13

Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Before long he learns that the current market landscape was to a large extent created by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation NMS , which took effect in 2007. What’s never answered satisfactorily in Lewis’s book is whether they’re doing a worse or better job of this than their predecessors. Ethics Finance Technology'

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year.

Training 8

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

After managing a sleeve of a successful hedge fund in London for five years, and building ample savings, Colin was ready for his own shop. ” Eventually, Serena had no choice but to sell the business, taking a major loss but learning a lifelong lesson. The first is Colin. By the time she opened Candlebar, it was 100% over budget.

Strategy 8

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you want to learn about the subject, in fact, Hector's article is probably better — it's clearer in its descriptions of the relevant theories. Have we learned nothing in the intervening two decades? I don't really buy that anymore, and I don't think all that many economists do, either. But it's 22 years old.

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Those are two of the findings from Meaningful Brands , a little study we do at my Lab. 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).

Media 8

Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Companies have a role to play in addressing this challenge, and doing so needn’t come at the expense of performance. Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8