Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Are you a master of strategy? 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. My question is: “What strategy might help to encourage leaders to run daily with what you say here?”

Blog 324

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 324

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. It must be embedded in what we call the integrated strategy machine.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. This makes corporate strategy an enormous and untapped prize for “robos” and “AI-enabled” expert advice across the entire enterprise; this market is ripe for disruption much the way the financial investing industry was in 2008.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options. 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. The first is Colin.

Strategy 8

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 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. That may or may not be the case for all teams, but that is the implication. link] Principal (le?) consensus kills teams [.]

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 325

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

Most corporations consist of multiple divisions, which set their own strategy (what we generally refer to as "business strategy"). Yet corporate top management invariably tries hard to force each unit into an overarching strategy. But more often than not, these dvisions have very little to do with one another.

Strategy 8

Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 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. I recently encountered an illustrative case of overclaiming that could translate easily across industries.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Marketing Advertising 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. Here are my top suspects: China and other countries following the Chinese strategy.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. Lending to small and medium-sized businesses is ready to move online. Eastern Bank).

Banking 11

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Sustaining innovation inhabits the world of incremental change, deliberate strategy , and most financial and management theory. Disruptive innovation Finance' New-market disruption is more complex.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 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

JANUARY 7, 2011

million in one year from the hedge fund D.E. Shaw, Summers wasn't just a big-name figurehead, but actually involved himself with the firm's investment strategies (or so I've heard both from Summers and people at D.E. This gap between what employees of Goldman and its Wall Street peers (including hedge funds, private equity firms, etc.)

Shaw 12

Shaw Decisionmaking Hedge Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

The former executive director of one institution told me that he looked forward to his appearances before the state legislature’s finance committee because “they were opportunities to keep politicians informed and keeping them informed is a way to keep them at bay.” We pay competitively but no hedge fund-size packages.”

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance. Thus, improving data quality is a gift that keeps giving — it enables you to take out costs permanently and to more easily pursue other data strategies. Such hidden data factories are expensive. trillion per year figure.

Cost 8

Cost Hedge Quality Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

I couldn't believe some of the people I was seeing from McKinsey," recalls a partner at another strategy firm. When strategy consulting firms first got going in the 1970s and 1980s, it was probably easier for the hotshot MBAs they hired to look with disdain at the poor Joes they were nominally attempting to help.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Freedom Financial provides five key areas of finance that are critical for entrepreneurs to have a greater chance at success. Keep business and personal finances separate. Once your business starts growing, Freedom Financial recommends separating business and personal finances, is essential. Proper preparation for lean months.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Tips Succession Management 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. Noble: Impact investing is about strategy. Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 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. To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 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. There’s evidence of this dynamic in the tension between smaller undiversified investors (such as hedge funds) and large asset management companies.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 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. How has Bezos done this?

Training 9

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

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. Paul Garbett for HBR. Less so for financial institutions or healthcare companies.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 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 Doom and Gloom.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

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

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The “turnaround plan” recently announced by McDonald’s includes an aggressive program to manipulatively boost its stock price via stock buybacks, an activity that has become the major focus of its corporate strategy over the past decade. ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The best witness on this point is Jamie Dimon himself who, in the last two weeks, has said: the trading strategy was "flawed, complex, poorly reviewed, poorly executed and poorly monitored.violated our own principles.". "It It puts egg on our face, and we deserve any criticism we get.".

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are two stories you can tell about finance in America. ” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates. .” ” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates. eBay is a recent example.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

That your next corporate strategy, summed in PowerPoint slide 447, consists of a grand plan to mass-produce the meaning of life in a twenty-four-pack of cans that can be found in aisle 47,935 of your nearest decrepit tubelit big-box store. Here's what I don't mean. Here's what I do mean. That institutions focus on outcomes, not just outputs.

Media 8

Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

The New York–based venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV) broadened its investment strategy so that it could buy ICOs directly. Menlo Park venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz joined USV in investing in Polychain Capital , a hedge fund that only buys tokens. Incumbents are taking notice.

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

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. More products at more pricepoints" is their name for this strategy. (GM represented an important channel for Dupont's lacquer, artificial leather, and other products, and Pierre du Pont was on GM's Board.)

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9