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

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.” People feel envy and regret they haven’t participated. They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

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 9

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

An unfortunate reality of many African economies is that only a tiny fraction of the population participates in the formal economy. 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. Top of the Pyramid.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. With these, you actually participate in the upside of your customers, and therefore your business grows with them. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

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. Academic computational finance researchers and fund managers alike tell me their machines frequently make trades and investments that the humans literally and cognitively do not understand.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

A cornerstone of efficient and transparent markets is freely available information. In 2001 professors Gur Huberman and Tomer Regev of Columbia University drew attention to a peculiar sequence of market reactions to news regarding a cancer research breakthrough licensed by biotech firm EntreMed.

Price 9

Price Hedge Influence Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” percent annually).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Finance Hedge Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed? By reducing transaction costs among all participants in the economy, blockchain supports models of peer-to-peer mass collaboration that could make many of our existing organizational forms redundant.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. Third, as a result of strong performances by worker- and employee-owned companies, it is becoming easier for workers to overcome arguably the biggest hurdle to worker buyouts: financing. Already, U.S. Already, U.S.

ESOP 12

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 12

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. Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9