Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

For example, California-based berry producer Driscoll’s has invested extensively in Mexican berry operations because of the year-round availability of high-quality fruit, lower labor costs, and local know-how. producers to lower their prices in foreign markets, raising demand for U.S. Options and hedges.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 9

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." After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. What is so special about where a global organization headquarters itself?

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

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

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. Financial markets are like that, Soros goes on. From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. Why did M&T make such out-of-character investments?

Banking 14

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. He noted his agency’s “particular concerns in digital markets.” In the U.S.,

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars. This lack of comfort with both the quantitative aspects of risk and the more sophisticated options available to operational executives is (in some industries literally) dangerous.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

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

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. We’d like to propose a solution. What – or who – is a Qualt?

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

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 14

Skills Morale Ethics System 14

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. This is partly due to the tendency to grow more than needed as a hedge against weather and disease and fluctuating wholesale and retail orders. In the U.S.,

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

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses). In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Comstock is out.

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. Caterpillar , for example, publishes its dealer sales statistics by region each month, while the Spanish bank Santander puts out a newsletter with key operating results and commentary.

Long-term 8

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. He makes his own decisions," I hedged.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. This group should represent a variety functions within the organization exposed to Brexit: supply chain, channel managers, procurement, marketing, sales, public affairs, governance, and financial controlling, among others. How to Plan for Brexit.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey. Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion. These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

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. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. And, since innovation was on everyone 's mind, I was soon also working with chief innovation officers and heads of strategy, business development, and emerging markets — anything that required innovation. The demand for my ideas surged and soon went global.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

One thing we can say with confidence is that uncertainty will remain high for some time in politics, macroeconomics, and business, at both global and national levels. In malleable environments, such as in newly created or disrupted markets, they will need to envision and realize new possibilities. Invest in Resilience. Modularity.

Strategy 10

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

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. The social impact funds want to support it for social reasons, whereas hedge funds and others are recognizing that the superior resiliency and performance of worker-owned firms can improve their returns.

ESOP 12

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. A vast, globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, it is capable of recording anything of value. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed?

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. 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.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Such plans frequently include giving managers financial incentives to do what they should have done before — concentrating on the most promising lines, selling off dud businesses, and "leaning down" operations, often including headcount. PE people certainly pay themselves well. They don't appear to be in it for the long haul.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12