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

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

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.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Next, you''ll want to position yourself as a potential fount of innovation.

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Brand How To Hedge Film 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. How did he make this unusual career leap? Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. Being an entrepreneur is a sign of ambition and innovation — two traits that most leaders love to be associated with. Grow your income.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Legendary bosses like Bill Sanders in real estate, Julian Robertson in hedge funds, and Bill Walsh in professional football all communicated visions that entranced employees and left them hell-bent on success. Insight Center. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Hedge Real Estate Film Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Her team had found ingenious ways to shave costs and innovative ways to add value for the client. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Failure is sometimes lauded as a key to successful innovation, but it takes a psychic toll on the manager.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. 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. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

So here's some advice on how to make the best of this role and do a better job of seeing the future. But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves.

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CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 15

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. In fact, unless you are a teenager and have a lot of frenemies, you are probably quite deterministic about your social circle.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 307

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Research by Sylvia Ann Hewlett at the Center for Talent Innovation shows that cultivating your personal brand is one of the best ways to attract a sponsor — and professionals with sponsors are 23% more likely than their peers to be promoted. Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune.

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Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. SME lending can remain a big business for banks, but only with deliberate choices about where to play and how to win.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

While perhaps an extreme example, this type of setup is prized by the likes of Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, who says that people are "more collaborative and innovative when they’re together. And recent research found that people are happier when they have different options for where and how to work. Then he berates you for an hour.

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Decentralization Advertising Hedge CEO 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. If you want to know how, here is the obligatory TED video. On January 3, Kahn Academy announced that Vi Hart would be moving to Mountain View and joining its team.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. Companies can do five things to hedge their bets in turbulent times while opening up options for the future: 1. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

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Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Eight years ago I published a book, The Medici Effect , that examines how and why groundbreaking ideas occur at the intersection of different cultures, industries, and disciplines. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it. But there are a lot of thought-leaders competing for the attention of that audience.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In school, being disruptive might get you sent to the principal's office, but in business, disruption is a proven path to success , describing innovations that take root at the low end of the market, or create a new market, and then eventually upend an industry. Figure out how to challenge and influence authority.

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

How to Plan for Brexit. When it comes to planning, multinationals shouldn’t apply quick fixes to mitigate short-term operational risks (for instance, financial hedging to manage exchange rate fluctuations, or cursory assessment of distributors to evaluate their supply chains).

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Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Leaders need to draw up a list of all the bad things that can happen, build cash reserves, hedge, and acquire options, to prepare for the worst. He went and lived with the Eskimos to learn how to run dog sledges in harsh conditions. Andy Grove of Intel went around "looking for the black cloud in the silver lining."

Hedge 15

Hedge Collins Open-book Teamwork 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

But it is a very basic rewrite of how to think about finance, and it has swept all before it in the academic world. You have to be a macro hedge fund, and not only do you the hedge fund manager have to have nerves of steel, your clients have to have nerves of steel. It goes back to the 1970s.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Fortunately, there's a rich source of lessons on how to thrive in an unpredictable world, and it has been cranking out success stories for 3.5 Adaptability is the power to detect and respond to change in the world, no matter how surprising or inconvenient it may be. Even the best of us are horrible at predicting the future. Redundancy.

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Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. Learn how to run a regression analysis! We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations.

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Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

The debate over how to reverse ever-increasing income inequality has moved front and center in the Democratic presidential campaign. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.

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Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8