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

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Leadership 120

Leadership Hedge Sharpe Executive Coaching 120

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 78

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 78

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 60

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 60

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. See what two not yet 20 year olds were able to do and sustain. by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012.

Incentives 171

Incentives Marketing Microfinance Entrepreneur 171

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.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

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

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.) Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. This sort of automation has been happening in businesses for decades. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Hedge Examples 8

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 [.]

Consensus 388

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.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

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.

Tools 12

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? So here's some advice on how to make the best of this role and do a better job of seeing the future. Technology and innovation ideas can also be found at niche forums focused on the future within industries and at venture capital conferences.

CIO 15

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 15

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. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see?

Uncertainty 307

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 307

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

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. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career.

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. If you want to know how, here is the obligatory TED video. The underlying technology is PowerPoint but it is accelerated beyond what one could do in a lecture hall.

Video 15

Video Education Christensen Hedge 15

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. Disruptive innovation Education Information & technology' See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Herbalife After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power The New York Times If you’re looking for the corporate-governance version of House of Cards, this is probably the closest you''ll get (though there''s no strategic murdering here, as far as I know). Crisis management Information & technology Technology'

McGregor 8

McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

During this process, they'll also learn an awful lot about the data and how to make use of it. It enables an organization to prove there's value in major investment before making it and to understand better how to make a big data program pay off for the long term. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? How to Repair Your Data.

CIO 15

CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

I initially couldn’t figure how to move my waiter (turns out you just have to click where you want him to go), and my 14-year-old son walked over to check what was going on. Maybe Halfteck would have gotten that hedge fund job, and never started a company. Hiring Information & technology Job search' Then where’d we be?

Hedge 10

Hedge Efficiency Information Technology Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Also see psychologist Maria Konnikova’s 2013 Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. The rhymes may be about social patterns, the impact of technology, or how nations tend to adapt. Of course, the wisest among us will always hedge our forecasts with qualifiers such as “will likely” or “is apt to.”

Groupthink 9

Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Another: Afghan soldiers needed to learn how to be confident in their skills — and that couldn''t happen with tons of advisers looking over their shoulders. One: In the long term, soft skills such as mentoring, inspiring, and “selling” (of concepts and goals) would be much more effective than combat drills. They''re pretentious.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

During this process, they'll also learn an awful lot about the data and how to make use of it. It enables an organization to prove there's value in major investment before making it and to understand better how to make a big data program pay off for the long term. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? How to Repair Your Data.

CIO 8

CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

How do we act on that? Managers have little concept of how to use big data analytics, what they mean, and what to believe. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? How to Repair Your Data. Take the flu example. Do we believe it? What does our intuition about such a fact tell us to do? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

Hedge 8

Hedge System Health Care Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Plural Investments*, a hedge fund started several years ago, had a problem. When Matt Grossman started Plural Investments, his intention was to harness the best efforts of many smart, creative people rather than just rely on the genius of a single founder, as so many other hedge funds do. How to choose? So Kate set up a contest.

Power 14

Power Hedge Chief Operating Officer Kaplan 14

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. Our aim was to prove the link between digital strength and shareholder value, and do so in a way that passes the rigorous standards of hedge funds.

Airlines 8

Airlines Hedge Metrics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. It is even possible to hold up the data mirror to individual technology users.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

Companies can do five things to hedge their bets in turbulent times while opening up options for the future: 1. This is no way to nurture the growth prospects of tomorrow. While businesses shouldn't react to economic uncertainty in knee-jerk fashion, the recent tumble in equity prices cannot be ignored.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

It’s better to explore many possible outcomes, barriers, and opportunities, and pre-decide how to act should key assumptions come to pass. You’ll know how to act no matter what the future holds. Agree upon what data to collect, how to collect it, and how to use it. The more democratic the process, the better.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

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 want to win. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be?

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

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. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. It goes back to the 1970s. Steve Ross , who was at Yale and now is at MIT, he did the basic theory. Lars is famous for that.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Last year, at the Techonomy conference outside Tucson, I heard Vivek Ranadivé — founder and CEO of financial-data software provider TIBCO , subject of a Malcolm Gladwell article on how to win at girls' basketball , and part owner of the Golden State Warriors — say pretty much the same thing : I believe that math is trumping science.

Hedge 16

Hedge Committee Open-book Policies 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Last year, at the Techonomy conference outside Tucson, I heard Vivek Ranadivé — founder and CEO of financial-data software provider TIBCO , subject of a Malcolm Gladwell article on how to win at girls' basketball , and part owner of the Golden State Warriors — say pretty much the same thing : I believe that math is trumping science.

Hedge 9

Hedge Committee Open-book Policies 9