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

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Here, I use the labels of the indispensable ‘Pixar Pitch’ to summarize Salman’s story: ACT I: Once upon a time, I was an analyst at a Boston-based hedge fund. And the moral of the story is, to build an online, global classroom so that everyone can increase their math and science aptitude.

Storytelling 279

Storytelling Video Hedge Career 279

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners , a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to Apple’s board of directors that may change the future of activist investing. Tim Ellis/Getty Images. A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

Hedge 9

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A recent Gartner survey says that global M&A activity increased after the financial crisis, and many companies were nationalized to avoid failure. Reason being an ability to hedge their bets and get a foothold in diverse markets and manage risks better. M&A Activity .

Trends 105

Trends Chief Operating Officer Supply Chain Crisis 105

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, investors can use physical precious metals as a hedge against currency devaluation or inflation. These assets can also be used as a store of value and a potential hedge against geopolitical risks. Both can be a hedge against inflation. These investments are also a good hedge against inflation.

Hedge 123

Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 123

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. During the bailout, financial firms, including hedge funds, were nowhere to be found. Instead, U.S.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Options and hedges. Leadership teams that develop strategic options and hedges for a variety of future scenarios navigate better when new developments unfold. No-regrets moves can be launched regardless of signposts, but a regular check of relevant information will precede the implementation of options and hedges or big bets.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

To distinguish correlation from causation, we use BlackRock’s 2009 acquisition of Barclays Global Investors (BGI). Recently, authorities have taken on hedge funds, alleging they violated this regulation. Existing research shows that nondiversified owners, such as activist hedge funds, incentivize CEOs to compete more vigorously.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

As global oil producers work at cross-purposes, the industry’s traditional boom-bust cycle is being replaced by faster, shallower price rotations based on changes in production. oil supply may be enough on its own to meet all of this year’s growth in global oil demand. Re-evaluating buffers to a more uncertain environment.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Collectively, the world’s investment giants hold in excess of $70 trillion in assets, which represents the bulk of investable capital globally. Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Globally, it equates to 2% of all annual emissions linked to climate change. If the world is to become ever more efficient and reach global climate goals, internet power will need to play its part. Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

The enormity of the challenges confronting pension funds — including substantial deficits, a tumultuous global economy, and a low-return environment — means that they need to be able to focus on maximizing investment returns without distraction. We pay competitively but no hedge fund-size packages.”

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Global giants have to increasingly ask emerging markets branches to go from acting as local distributors to serving as local developers. How should companies hedge against the practice of copying your products as you go into those markets? You also need to re-think how you organize. This shift is easier said than done.

Marketing 13

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." What is so special about where a global organization headquarters itself? After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations.

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Global enterprises and entrepreneurs alike will be able to use big datasets to generate business hypotheses around innovation and new value creation. The ingenuity is compelling: instead of using data to solve problems, AH technologies generate portfolios of provocative problems to solve. Or, more accurately, hypotheses worth testing.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 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. The diffusion of manufacturing technology through global trade, investment, and education has hurt the company, too.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

CEOs live in fear of activist hedge funds, and politicians worry about their effects on workers. Since the global financial crisis, a new wave of “constructive,” or friendly, activists (typically referred to as engagement funds) has tackled the same corporate governance issues, but with an explicitly low-key, humbler approach.

ROE 8

ROE Construction Hedge Policies 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

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

are making coal plants more expensive, regulation is not truly impeding global fossil fuel use. And partly because of America’s intransigence, 19 years of global negotiations on binding limits on carbon have led nearly nowhere. That’s a mighty big “if.” Ultimately, the political will for fundamental change is lacking.

NGO 9

NGO Energy Morale Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

” We collected data from a private online knowledge-sharing platform where buy-side (hedge fund, mutual fund) investment professionals (analysts, portfolio managers) share their investment recommendations to buy and sell a given security, along with the analysis supporting their position, with other members of this platform.

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 The happiest folks out there are probably GE Healthcare’s two big global competitors, Philips and Siemens Healthineers. billion equity investment in GE stock, one that made it a top 10 shareholder. GE stock was trading at $25.47

TSR 9

TSR Company IPO Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

For sheer bonhomie and bonding, golf remains a global opportunity for American, Asian, and European executives to mix business with pleasure. Indeed, I know Silicon Valley and (admittedly younger) hedge fund quant teams who bond and boost morale through their Minecraft bouts.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Game Theory Bond Hedge 8

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Hedge 314

Hedge Class Video Career 314

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Only a few days before, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor-Jones created a stir by remarking at a conference that women will never rival men as traders because babies are a "focus killer". Madisch realized that science needed a global community where the work took precedence over egos. households.

Sample 13

Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Saudi Arabia’s vast global role on oil markets as a major producer, exporter, and decision-maker within OPEC is reciprocal; the country relies on oil exports for over 90% of its government revenue, making the Saudi budget, and hence the state itself, exceptionally dependent on this one source of revenue.

Politics 8

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing companies for the 21 st century. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

Uncertainty 309

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Global climate change is not an area of controversy in China. We expect with significant government subsidies that over the next two decades, Chinese firms will emerge as the global leaders in clean energy. It is a responsible member of many global organizations, but not a leader of them in the broadest sense. China Economy'

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. Competition for jobs is now global, and positions are harder to find — so if something does disrupt your company or your industry, it’s good to have a backup plan. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. But from 2000 to 2014, the population grew 2.4 Learning.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 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

MARCH 24, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. Higher taxes on the 1% and closing tax loopholes benefiting hedge fund managers might be good policy ideas, but these policies on their own will not have much benefit for workers who have been experiencing stagnant wages. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Hedge Banking 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. Financial repression doesn''t sound like a good thing, and in some ways it isn''t. So here''s the big if.

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Kumar is well known on Capitol Hill and with global tax experts because he has deep and broad knowledge of the subject and understands the dynamics of how policy will shape up now and in the future. In professional services, experts can write their own ticket.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. This finding mirrors the results of Edelman’s annual Global Trust Barometer.)

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Global leaders pride themselves on having many connections across industries and sectors. To borrow a term from Wharton management professor Michael Useem, Owens is most definitely a member of the global elite’s “ inner circle.”. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar.

Ethics 8

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

Here's what I don't mean by opulence bubble: that global GDP's going to collapse tomorrow, and continue to crater for decades, until we're back to hunting with stone axes and singing by firelight. And now, it's coming back down to earth.

GDP 18

GDP Price Hedge Banking 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2011

As the never-ending global economic crisis has intensified, we've had plenty of what economists call "capital flight" to "safer" financial assets, whether gold, bonds, or blue chip stocks. Hence, my tiny suggestion might be not just a motivational nugget, but a challenge: that it's beyond time to make an economic paradigm shift.

Crisis 20

Crisis Bond Depreciation Hedge 20