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

JULY 22, 2013

Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. Commodities-trading rules and customs that date back to the pre-financial era may not fit the more aggressive tactics of hedge funds and investment banks. Ethics Finance Global business'

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge 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. Beyond its predictive power, this approach also achieves speed, scalability, and evolvability. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall. After the Russian financial crisis in 1998, LTCM imploded and lost $4.6

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

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. Compensation Economy Finance'

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 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'

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Very few politicians will take on those powerful lobbies, so a price on carbon is likely a fantasy in the U.S. In significant swaths of the world, wind or solar power is more than competitive with fossil fuels. Companies and consumers could also decide it’s cool to use clean power.

NGO 9

NGO Energy Morale Price 9

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 26, 2017

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. These low-cost and reliable sources of funds are from taxpayer-insured deposits and the Federal Reserve’s discount window.

Banking 11

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

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. Ethics Finance Government' Maybe there were some incriminating details behind the Goldman executive’s statement that alarmed Segarra and were left out of the story, but on the face of it there’s nothing to see here.

Banking 9

Banking Conflict of Interest Hedge Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

These days, most firms’ most powerful shareholders tend to benefit more from the performance of the entire industry than the performance of an individual firm. Magnifying their already large individual power, large asset managers also appear to coordinate many corporate governance activities, including those regarding compensation.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

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. If they aren't satisfied, they can bring more voting power to bear than any risk arbitrageur.

Long-term 14

Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 14

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. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. CEOs need to clarify when talented humans must defer to algorithmic judgment. That’s hard.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I The Power of the Power Bar. Doom and Gloom.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Although former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis made eloquent appeals about the need to rethink macro, he said very little about changing how the economy is run. contraction today, there was no one in the finance ministry actually making policy. The record on economic policy-making is equally disappointing.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Summers, meanwhile, is the second most powerful economic official in the U.S. Doyne Farmer , a Los-Alamos-National-Laboratory-scientist-turned-hedge-fund-manager-turned-Santa-Fe-Institute-professor, has bent over backwards not to be ignorant and arrogant about economics. — at least for another couple of weeks. In recent years J.

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > The same applies to trade finance and financial assets, where companies such as Digital Asset Holdings (run by JPMorgan veteran Blythe Masters ), Blockstream, and Chain are trying to revolutionize how assets are issued and traded.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

And by the late 1990's investment banks and hedge funds were in the business of betting for and against currencies. This is the "hot money" that Mahathir referred to. They would have had their capital tied up in productive assets.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

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.) The firm's long-standing balance of power between bankers and traders is broken, which has big implications for the firm's overall culture. billion of Goldman's $28.81 billion in net revenue.

Hedge 12

Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A friend of mine, for example, was speaking recently with an older hedge fund manager who began a story with the following: "Since we all know that there are 4 billion people on the planet." This finance expert is dead wrong — in fact, he's billions of people off (we're now over seven billion). This is a problem.

Hedge 17

Hedge Advertising Finance Information 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Companies with dual-class shares have two designations of common stock, typically A shares and B shares, with one class having more powerful voting rights than the other. Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

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.

Media 8

Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

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. And companion bills developed to enable the U.S. To encourage worker buyouts, more awareness-raising initiatives are required.

ESOP 12

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

There is no more powerful question in a U.S. To an extent not widely recognized, it was an equation in the first place that gave ROE the power to dominate not just investment decisions, but an entire business culture. corporation than "what's the ROE on that?" Social media spending? Wellness checkups? Better working conditions?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Jana Partners, the activist hedge fund, isn’t known as a tree-hugging hippie sort of firm. Apple is an enormously powerful firm, and its actions can set the agenda for an entire industry. BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. Ryan McVay/Getty Images.

CEO 11

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Anti-immigrant political movements swelled, helping to push Britain out of the European Union and bringing right-wing populists to power across Central Europe. Multinational companies should pressure-test 2018 sales targets and currency hedging against this scenario. Navy for the better part of a century.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9