Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

The normal culprits for short-termism are short-term-minded hedge-fund managers and activist shareholders, as well as CEOs worried about big bet investments with uncertain paybacks. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Trustworthiness is never entirely pure.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

While big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things garner the lion’s share of media attention, using data to its full potential is much more about management than it is about technology. Here, the goal is not to provide content but to provide direction toward content. Infomediate. Exploit asymmetries.

Company 10

Company Insurance Content Policies 10

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Trustworthiness is never entirely pure.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Investing in new technology can reduce excess inventory and handling, and cut down on the amount of perishables that ultimately go to waste. Technology is an important enabler here too. Companies like Whole Foods and Target in the U.S. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 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?

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

As a hedge fund manager who applied data-driven trading strategies once said, “You can spend endless time and resources only to find eventually a bug in your data.”. Decision making Information & technology' You can get problems even with the best data.

Credit Scoring 10

Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. 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. Let’s examine two cases, one a former colleague and the other a close friend.

Strategy 8

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. Not every entrepreneurial side venture works out, so this likely shouldn’t be your primary goal. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. Grow your income.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. The underlying technology is PowerPoint but it is accelerated beyond what one could do in a lecture hall. If you want to know how, here is the obligatory TED video.

Video 14

Video Education Christensen Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Treglia decided that, due to this open-ended goal and the difficulty of getting the Afghan Army to learn to do things on their own amid a swarm of advisers, he would go over the heads of his superiors and craft a strategy that relied on a few key takeaways. Even the concept of "unplugging" for a night or a weekend is boring.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

As prominent hedge fund manager Bill Ackman told me, “When I graduated from business school I thought business was about making money and philanthropy was about doing good. From Method to Warby Parker, they list positive societal impact alongside profit as a top-line goal.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

And in the 21st century, the majority of public company shareholders are institutional investors (banks, insurance companies, pensions, hedge funds, REITs, investment advisers, endowments, and mutual funds), not individuals. (In Activist investors have a simple goal: increase the value of their investment.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

The idea that economists hedge their bets or disagree constantly with one another is a feature of the discipline. I clicked, but discovered it was one of those rare coupons where the retailer had lofty goals; the deal required a large number of customers to buy the coupon before the offer was in play.

Retail 15

Retail Discount Hedge Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Recent attacks on OPM and a London hedge fund show two different ways that cybersecurity is so difficult right now: First, even the U.S. government isn’t safe from attack, and second, the hedge fund’s CFO was able to be fooled into giving away information over the phone. Can you actually defend against getting hacked?

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could accept lower returns in exchange for accomplishing social goals. 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. Noble: With family offices, there is this intergenerational play.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Their goal was to hit the lowest possible price point, and to appeal to “digital native” customers. Human advisors could also, like hedge fund managers, analyze the results from machine-advised decisions and advise clients on whether changes are necessary in the algorithms and logic employed by the machines.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You can’t predict or control the future, but you can control your organization’s alignment in terms of mission, vision, goals, and strategy. Externally, examine societal trends, political implications, technological advancements, and competitive forces. GPSing can be used by individuals, of course, or by organizations as a whole.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It has implications that extend far beyond the company’s stated goal to design single-purpose apps that fit mobile usage and the bottleneck of screen mobile device real estate. Today Facebook enjoys three advantages over rivals: technological capabilities, economies of scale in its infrastructure, and most importantly, network effects.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Real Estate Strategic Planning 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

and has studied emerging business and technology trends. 3) hedge bets by building products and services on multiple platforms in order to compete on the same terms as digital giants in ways that are least likely to get regulated. What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? What role do you see AI playing?

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130