Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

By Guest Authors from Booz & Company : Partner, Paul Leinwand and Managing Director, Cesare Mainardi . As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. . Way to play: They make a deliberate choice about how to add value in the market – e.g., as a value player, an experience provider, an aggregator, etc. .

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Strategy Short-term Competitive Advantage Fixed Assets 178

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Hedge funds are playing the role of Wall Street villain again. Then came the November 22, 2010 raids of three hedge fund headquarters by FBI agents who seized documents and confiscated BlackBerries. Now authorities are serving subpoenas on other, larger hedge and mutual funds. This time, the charge is rampant insider trading.

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Hedge Ethics Incentives Environment 14

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 7, 2011

As the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 513 points last Thursday, then gyrated wildly on Friday, all of Wall Street seemed to be asking the same question: What the heck is going on? Over the last three weeks or so, hedge fund managers have been betting that stocks will fall further. Why, then, all these crazy swings?

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Hedge Wilde Price Follow-up 95

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

At least, that’s one way of looking at Elliott Management’s campaign to shake things up at Juniper Networks. The hedge fund founded and run by billionaire Paul Singer just announced that it now owns 6.2% Its high-end Internet routers were gaining share on market-leader Cisco, and the sky was the limit.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. The other is medium-size businesses with 20 to about 100 employees; the purchaser at these places is a senior manager, not the owner.". "I 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.

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Yet the unfortunate side effect of uncompetitive markets is that consumers pay higher prices. Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. Index funds have given millions of people relatively low-cost access to the stock market. trillion in assets.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. The other is medium-size businesses with 20 to about 100 employees; the purchaser at these places is a senior manager, not the owner.". "I 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.

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Senior leaders who have learned to manage in uncertainty focus on the few risks that matter most. How Different Industries Might Fare. companies in the automotive, agricultural, and textile industries by as much as one percentage point (assuming no pass-through of higher costs to consumers). political upheaval.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Many managers are missing digital signals that could help them better compete. 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. You should compare this number to your company’s actual market share. Southwest has 13% of the U.S.

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Airlines Hedge Metrics Consensus 8

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. GM did $20.4

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory? Mostly, though, markets get things right.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I recently encountered an illustrative case of overclaiming that could translate easily across industries. After one hedge fund I know had a horrendous quarter, the managers wrote to clients, saying that they were concentrating 70% of the entire fund into only five stocks.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Marketing Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. 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.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Using inventory turns alone would suggest that Wal-Mart's inventory productivity improved dramatically, and would also suggest that by 2005, Wal-Mart was substantially better than Target at managing its inventory. On the other hand, adjusted inventory turns during the same period provides a statistical dead heat between the two.

Retail 13

Retail Marketing Benchmarking Fixed Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When last year's massive earthquake hit Japan, the effect on electronics production was severe, and it also resulted in extended business disruptions for many in the automotive industry. When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars.

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Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy.

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Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. Gore and Associates, are leaders in their industries. The biggest difference is that workers have an important say in who manages them and how profits align with values. Already, U.S.

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ESOP Company Cooper IAM 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

Stephenson 14

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. CEOs get paid handsomely. public companies. public companies.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors.

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Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. The industry was born in its current form, however, when the first venture capital firms were founded in the middle of the twentieth century.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? It’s clear that robo-advisors and AI play an important and growing role in the financial services industry, but a question remains. And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry? CSA Images/Printstock Collection/Getty Images. will grow to U.S. $5

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Having pioneered the smartphone industry with its Blackberry, RIM is dangerously adrift. Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Is it Apple's consumer appeal, or the declining influence of corporate IT managers?

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. Say-on-pay is part of a big shift in recent years toward giving professional money managers more tools to affect the governance of (and in some cases discipline the managers of) corporations. That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. As one industry insider told us, “I am in the business of making money, I don’t care who you are, as long as you can help me in that goal.” Tooga/Getty Images.

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Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. insider trading by hedge funds. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. have centered on.

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Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Jana Partners, the activist hedge fund, isn’t known as a tree-hugging hippie sort of firm. We can’t expect managers to focus primarily on anything other than building a thriving, profitable enterprise. Apple is an enormously powerful firm, and its actions can set the agenda for an entire industry.

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CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Although any company, regardless of its size, legal structure, or industry, can become a B Corporation, currently most B Corporations are privately-held small and medium-sized businesses. The first generation of B Corporations was certified in 2007, and the number of firms earning certification has grown exponentially ever since.

Company 8

Company Hedge Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

But such expectations are unrealistic in many industries. As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. Given the promise and peril of such a disruptive technology, many firms in the financial industry, from banks and insurers to audit and professional service firms, are investing in blockchain solutions.

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. Sponsored by Accenture.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management. Neustar’s MarketShare software makes it possible for customers to measure the effects of their marketing programs and compare them to other firms.

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Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8