Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

It is generally accepted that efficiency represents the optimal, aspirational state for any market. Efficient markets, which feature many buyers and sellers and perfect information flowing between them, determine the “right price” and hence allocate society’s resources optimally. Think about how markets evolve.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 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. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory? Mostly, though, markets get things right.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

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. But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value. Financial markets Performance measurement Leadership'

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 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.

Blog 332

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Or at least the market''s. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. It also doesn''t follow from Bebchuk, Brav, and Jiang''s evidence that more hedge fund activism would necessarily be a good thing. I''m not joining in.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. 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.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

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. A very concentrated portfolio won’t help if the whole market collapses.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Marketing Advertising 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

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The job market does not account for all social value. On the other hand, some sectors involve “zero sum” endeavors, in which profits come at the expense of other market participants. Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market. Some spillovers are quite large.

Policies 8

Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 8

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. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. have centered on.

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

And, as The Wall Street Journal reports, the Lending Club IPO will likely be followed by public offerings by similar lenders, some even more focused on the small business credit market. According to Mills’ research, “most [peer-to-peer lenders] are large institutional investors such as hedge funds and investment banks.”

IPO 8

IPO Due Diligence Credit Scoring Banking 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. It was developed by Japan and South Korea in the 1980s and is used widely by emerging markets from Brazil to India.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. So, on balance, having a futures market appears better than not having a futures market.

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

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 15

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 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 333

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

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

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?

Bond 12

Bond Education Finance Video 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Due in part to the stature of its board, a North American pension fund was able to retain a market-competitive pay structure despite the clamor that erupted following its announcement that it had suffered substantial investment losses during the global financial crisis. We pay competitively but no hedge fund-size packages.”

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 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.” They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty'

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 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

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. 2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. As I write this, on Thursday morning, the loss for the week is nearing 10%.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 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. Bloomberg New Energy Finance has estimated that between now and 2030, around 70% of the power generation the world will add will be renewables. The Guilt or Enlightenment: Moral Suasion .

NGO 10

NGO Energy Morale Price 10

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. But although conventional due diligence for a deal involves deep market research and repeated rounds of interviews with founders and key customers, Correlation focuses on documentary information.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

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. Because the fact that value is not guaranteed in the future lessens value in the present.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. 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. How has Bezos done this?

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. market capitalization ) and 500 additional public companies. Certainly, people have benefited from the low-cost, diversified exposure to the stock market that large asset managers offer.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance. Consider this figure: $136 billion per year. This figure should surprise no one with an interest in big data.

Cost 8

Cost Hedge Quality Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Tech-world denizen Jesper Andersen tweeted a similar sentiment: “Change ‘startup’ to ‘hedge fund,’ ‘ecstasy’ to ‘cocaine’, and ‘douche-bag’ to ‘douche bag’ and you too can see SF is just another Wall St.” Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In the sense that financial markets and the economy in general are far more fragile than most mainstream economists contemplated before 2008, there was a bit of unlearning done in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 1987 stock market crash was a scare. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S. I know I believed it.

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

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. For corporations to make the required long-term investments in production, marketing, etc.,

Long-term 15

Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 15

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 15

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 15