Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. After all, the World Bank estimates that the number of middle class consumers in emerging markets will jump from 420 million today to more than 1.2

Marketing 13

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

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. GM did $20.4

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Yet the unfortunate side effect of uncompetitive markets is that consumers pay higher prices. Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. Index funds have given millions of people relatively low-cost access to the stock market. trillion in assets.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Senior leaders who have learned to manage in uncertainty focus on the few risks that matter most. producers to lower their prices in foreign markets, raising demand for U.S. They include improving cost management or operational effectiveness in procurement, supply chain, and inventory management. Options and hedges.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 9

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 especially true in supply chain risk management, although those high-profile one-off events do not necessarily represent the largest portion of risks that should be addressed regularly by supply chain managers.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 9

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

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. Collectively, the world’s investment giants hold in excess of $70 trillion in assets, which represents the bulk of investable capital globally.

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. Deft, pre-emptive management. Strong governance.

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

CEOs live in fear of activist hedge funds, and politicians worry about their effects on workers. Abe has even met with one of the most prominent American activists, Dan Loeb , in a private albeit well-publicized encounter, suggesting he sees value in foreign involvement in Japanese markets. In the U.S.,

ROE 8

ROE Construction Hedge Policies 8

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? The UK hardly seemed like an alternative high-growth market.

Banking 12

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. Unlike in the smaller Gulf states such as the UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia has a comparably large, regionally and economically heterogenous society to manage.

Politics 9

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 9

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

Uncertainty 309

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

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. Automating hypotheses that will excite marketers and financiers as well as engineers and designers will be as much a computational art as a software science.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. 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.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

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 14

Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. Given the general underrepresentation of women among investment professionals, especially in hedge funds, it was not surprising that only about 4.2% Tooga/Getty Images.

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And isn’t lowering costs exactly what managers focused on shareholder value are supposed to be doing? Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. Understanding how to manage reputation risk starts with understanding the elements of reputation. We’d like to propose a solution.

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

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

JULY 21, 2011

With the first approach, companies seek significant mismatches between their existing organizational capabilities and the markets they serve. They ask: Where are opportunities to introduce something totally unexpected in a market we already serve, with an offering we can deliver tomorrow with little additional investment?

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

“It’s no good fighting an election campaign on the facts,” Cambridge Analytica’s managing director told an undercover reporter, “because actually it’s all about emotion.” The velocity in acquiring and exploiting this personal data can help these companies obtain significant market power.

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

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 10

TSR Company IPO Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6%

Banking 12

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Large food retailers such as Kroger, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Carrefour, and Wal-Mart stand in a unique position to address this global food issue. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

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.”. Playing golf with Jack Nicklaus. Smiling with President Obama at a state dinner.

Ethics 8

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

The executive implications for time management and, more important, people management are enormous. The awkward irony is that this radically increased access gives top management less choice — not more — about how it invests its limited attention. The chairman had artfully hedged and qualified his innovation clichés.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Volatility has returned to global markets, and consumer and business confidence is once again slipping. In scores of conversations I've had with business leaders, pension fund trustees, asset managers, employer associations, and NGOs since I first issued this call in HBR , everyone has agreed with the goal.

Long-term 8

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

” Alain Ducasse runs a global empire of more than 20 restaurants with a collective 19 Michelin stars. I managed my restaurant from my hospital bed, by writing the menus, for example. ” And she admits she “was not initially the best manager.” If it brings you something else, that’s a plus.”

Career 14

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Today, business leaders are not only trying to address community and global problems earlier in their lives; they are also questioning the traditional divide between commerce and philanthropy. ” At Omidyar Network , we’re excited by this shift in thinking.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

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 Terranola’s market cap skyrocketed to $8.1

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My grandfather ran the exports, while my great-uncle managed the palm plantation. All the companies in the conglomerate would have to measure themselves against global industry benchmarks. My father would put more professional managers in key positions. Professional" management hadn''t worked out quite as the family had hoped.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics. The company should look to bring in staff from other markets to apply their skill sets and ideas. How to Plan for Brexit.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8