Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Too many business leaders are preoccupied with the next answer to growth and find themselves stretched thin – trying to play in too many disparate markets and pursuing multiple strategies and directions that undermine rather than reinforce each other. As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

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Strategy Short-term Competitive Advantage Fixed Assets 178

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Ask about the scale of their dreams, their Apple, Google, Amazon scale dreams, how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true regardless of what the overhead is…” The third reason that leaders struggle with building shared vision is that they forgot how to tell a compelling story.

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Storytelling Video Hedge Career 278

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners , a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to Apple’s board of directors that may change the future of activist investing. Tim Ellis/Getty Images. But it is reportedly not alone.

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Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. Real leaders know how to choose the members of their team. economy was in a bull market. That’s the effect success has on people. You do not climb your way up without meeting people who have mixed feelings about you.

Hedge 50

Hedge Leadership Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 50

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.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail. How To Survive In A High Performance Workplace. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. How To Make Wonderful Mistakes. Also, good dental hygiene is important too. Next post: Creating A Life Plan.

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Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 225

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2022

You need to figure out how to invest your money appropriately. If you put it in the stock market, there is a chance that your investments could go down; however, there is also a chance they could go up. How can you figure out how to properly invest your money? How much risk are you willing to take on?

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How To Hedge Bond Marketing 86

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. He was right: His online course about how to win promotions earned him an extra $106,000 — on top of his day job salary — in its first full year.

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Webinar How To Audience Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her. Founder and CEO Dirk Middleton liked him, too, especially after Andrew coined what would become the company slogan: Marketing is broken.

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 13

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The book’s title and subtitle capture the spirit of this kind of workplace, where human scale matters more than massive revenue and big market share. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank.

Health Care 15

Health Care How To Hedge Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Many companies face quarterly or even more immediate pressure from their shareholders (increasingly made up of hedge funds, program traders, and day traders) to deliver short-term performance. For corporations to make the required long-term investments in production, marketing, etc.,

Long-term 15

Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 15

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.”. Using predictive models of demand developed during growth years or for a price sensitive market segment may fail miserably when market conditions change.

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Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 10

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

There is a great talent and skill gap in jobs in today’s job market. Negligent hire claims are a serious risk and a thorough background check helps you hedge that risk. (A The post How to conduct pre-employment background checks? Companies now outsource the hiring process as limited resources challenge most companies. .

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Pre-Employment Screening Guidelines How To Reference 105

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.” Using predictive models of demand developed during growth years or for a price sensitive market segment may fail miserably when market conditions change.

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Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 8

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

For example, hedge funds automatically filtering out bad data in the form of a negative value for trading volume, which can’t be negative.) This sort of automation has been happening in businesses for decades. The data might come from you, or from an external provider.

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Hedge Examples 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Let’s say the chief security officer for an oil and gas company is deciding how to allocate their budget across multiple locations and assets. To consider another example, say a hedge fund is looking to acquire a tech company that claims to have a leading-edge technology. Here’s an example. 3 – Moderate impact.

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Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable. Once a decision has been made, it's up to the team to figure out how to make it work. consensus kills teams [.]

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. A key constraining resource in traditional venture is a VC investor's time.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

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.

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Hedge Class Video Career 314

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

Ray Dalio, head of the $165 billion Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, says it makes him feel like “a ninja in a fight.” As CEO of Digitalux, a digital marketing company based in Hoboken, New Jersey, Dan regularly clocked 12-hour days, putting out fires with clients, pitching for new work, and managing his team. Meditation.

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How To Ryan Energy Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. 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.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

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? How many new customers churn after just a few months? Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. Supermarkets can sponsor and team up with chefs to demonstrate how to utilize leftover ingredients and food.

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Here''s a brief (disguised) example: Due to changing market conditions, price compression, and the slow introduction of new products, a billion-dollar consumer products unit was starting to see erosion in market share and profitability. But all of us fall into this category from time to time. Have we agreed on the key priorities?

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Hedge Metrics Planning Course 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Advice for how to gracefully handle mistakes often emphasizes 1) taking responsibility for the error, 2) presenting a plan for the remedy, and then 3) fixing what was wrong. I have learned to tell clients that we bought a stock incorrectly, that we misjudged, mistimed, or misunderstood the environment or the market.

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Letter Price Hedge Committee 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.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully. I work in the investment business, where risk-taking is an occupational necessity. Because our performance has been good (knock on wood) since our inception, I have to like the process. What are the potential downsides?

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Tversky Kahneman Hedge Analysis 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. So let’s look at that research by the Harris Interactive team.

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Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

When this occurs, the challenge for a premium company is how to discount in a manner that doesn''t damage their brand nor anger customers who paid full price. Guitarist Keith Richards could casually drop in an interview that this may very well likely be the band''s last tour (the "hedge" in the wording is intentional). Marketing'

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Price Discount Brand Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

It’s the things that scare you the most that you have to do…One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” We asked her how she stays ahead of the curve. .’ It’s the best advice I’ve ever gotten. Do what you think is right.”

Career 13

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Volatility has returned to global markets, and consumer and business confidence is once again slipping. What we continue to struggle with is how to build this essential managerial muscle. I'd advise CEOs to start where they can make an immediate difference: change how they communicate to and engage with their investor base.

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Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. Armed with a hypothesis that the stock market was undervaluing digital, we sought to create the largest known repository of digital data on U.S. Southwest has 13% of the U.S.

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Airlines Hedge Metrics Consensus 8