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

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.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The ingenuity is compelling: instead of using data to solve problems, AH technologies generate portfolios of provocative problems to solve. Global enterprises and entrepreneurs alike will be able to use big datasets to generate business hypotheses around innovation and new value creation. They’re investing accordingly.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

The velocity in acquiring and exploiting this personal data can help these companies obtain significant market power. He noted his agency’s “particular concerns in digital markets.” In a monopolized market, personal data is concentrated in a few firms. In the U.S., and Europe. Surveillance and security risks.

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. are making coal plants more expensive, regulation is not truly impeding global fossil fuel use. 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

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. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

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 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

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

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? How many new customers churn after just a few months?

Uncertainty 309

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

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 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

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. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Jim,” as he is known to all, not only did pioneering work in mathematics; he also founded Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that relied on scientists to make predictions and trade in global markets.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8

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. Now I think both can be used as methods for changing the world.” ” Sir Ronald Cohen, the father of British venture capital, agrees.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 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. GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% for United Technologies and 30% for Siemens. Comstock is out. So what happened? of the company.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 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 Terranola’s market cap skyrocketed to $8.1

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

I thought this would be a wonderful gateway to post on how poorly economists and economics understand and measure innovation in global markets. The chairman had artfully hedged and qualified his innovation clichés. Bernanke's quotes were truisms and clichés. Then I got around to actually reading his speech online.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

But by the end of the decade, the advocates of more rapid growth had pretty much won out in the name of better serving clients in an increasingly globalized world. Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. billion to $3.4

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Insight Center. Distributed Database.

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

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. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The horrible irony: The very detail-oriented systems (and people) Dimon had put in place had obscured rather than surfaced his bank's horrible hedge. There's a reason why great chefs visit the farms and markets that source their restaurants: The raw ingredients are critical to success.

Micromanagement 17

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 17

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2016

Whether it’s Mark Zuckerberg joining Bill Gates and Warren Buffet in a Giving Pledge, the six biggest global communications firms putting differences aside in a U.N. It drives large efforts from spearheading a movement to bringing a game-changing product or technology to market.

Hedge 50

Hedge Long-term Restructuring Maturity 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

What will be the administration’s take on science and technology? 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. How will the Affordable Care Act be repealed? Invest in Resilience. Modularity.

Strategy 10

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How is extreme consolidation changing global business? How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? and has studied emerging business and technology trends. You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. Rule the World. What are some of the dynamics at play causing this?

Disintermediation 131

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131

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