The Horizons Tracker

MAY 24, 2021

The researchers examined the hedge fund industry in the US to test how working with a star would affect the appraisal of non-star performers both when projects went well and when they went badly. The researchers gathered data from Eurekahedge, which is an investment research firm that compiles data on both hedge funds and fund managers.

Hedge 91

Hedge Project Succession Industry 91

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 31, 2022

The study found that when managers rely on variable work schedules, higher employee turnover is common as it can result in a fall in employees’ health, work-life balance, and even job security. Research from Cornell reminds us, however, that variable work schedules can be detrimental to performance.

Hedge 129

Hedge Human Capital Stress Short-term 129

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2015

Nick is the author of The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy (Columbia University Press 2014) and was involved in a technical confidential project with one of the world’s largest global macroeconomic hedge funds.

Hedge 70

Hedge Risk Management Media Innovation 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 7, 2015

Nick is the author of The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy (Columbia University Press 2014) and involved in a technical confidential project with one of the world’s largest global macroeconomic hedge funds. Meanwhile, […].

Hedge 70

Hedge Drucker Risk Management Media 70

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 29, 2023

This affords them greater opportunities to earn in different ways, while the diversity also hedges against any risks of economic downturns. They also urge hiring managers to be aware of this bias so that they find the best freelancers. “As

Career 127

Career Hedge Commitment Film 127

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Be Innovative and engaging, not flat and uninspired – countless management consultants employ the same old, tired planning processes that generate little interest or energy. Management teams want automated and integrated techniques that enable analytics and scenario testing.

Strategy 150

Strategy Strategic Planning Span of Control Hedge 150

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. In order to maximize our learning we have to be sensitive to and manage our emotions.” More than ever, it truly is learn or die. So to a large degree is means overcoming our humanness.

Open-book 282

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 282

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You throw away your backup plans and your push forward, no longer bogged down by the infinite ways in which we hedge our own successes.” Innovation needs time to achieve escape velocity and build up enough momentum to withstand forces of resistance. “You have to give yourself no escape route, no chance to ever turn back.

How To 84

How To Commitment Hedge Resistance 84

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. Remember “smile or your fired”.

Organization 186

Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2020

It primarily involves investing in mutual funds and hedge funds, which offer the opportunity to invest where you may not be able to meet the minimum capital alone. This type of funding involves higher minimum capital in comparison with other types of private equity funding and involves longer investment terms too.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Finance Hedge Restructuring 66

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

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

The researchers suggest that the desire for small firms to move could be because they have a smaller order book that doesn’t allow them to hedge their risk in the way larger firms can. They need also to ease export admin and stimulate financial support, risk management and education in strategic marketing. ”

Supply Chain 85

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 85

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.&# A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

Blog 332

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It can help them innovate. There are no short-cuts in management. Michael Fraccaro: That’s an interesting way to frame it.

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

Consensus 333

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

When executives complain about activist hedge funds, it’s often under the cover of short-termism. Keusch looked at the impact of activist hedge funds from 1994 to 2012, to see what impact they had on management. None of this should let activist hedge funds off the hook in terms of their broader impact on the economy.

CEO 8

CEO Hedge Reputation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Critically, short-term selling by shareholders need not entail short-term behavior by managers. What about innovation? Tim Evans for HBR.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

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.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

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. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation. The breakthrough innovator’s hypothesis doesn’t have to come from a human.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Only a few days before, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor-Jones created a stir by remarking at a conference that women will never rival men as traders because babies are a "focus killer". Here are two of many examples we came across that show how anyone can lead with a more feminine ethos: Empathy Is Innovation. households.

Sample 14

Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

While larger companies may be able to hedge the costs associated with key inputs and smooth out any cyclical costs, smaller businesses may struggle to achieve this. Being able to manage the inflationary period well is likely to be crucial to how well businesses large and small manage to ride the tide.

Supply Chain 107

Supply Chain Charan Short-term Long-term 107

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size. It has managed to combine international standards with African tastes.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Yet in today’s rapidly evolving, 24/7 workplaces, it’s not always clear what managers should do to create the most satisfying work experiences and the happiest employees. If you supervise others, make sure you do the following: Manage individuals, not teams. But this is also the manager’s responsibility.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Film Motivation 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Feeling safe is a primal human need. Carl had a Ph.D.

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. In working with companies on getting more from their data, I advise managers to explore seven methods to put data to work.

Company 11

Company Insurance Content Policies 11

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?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. It requires rethinking reporting relationships, talent management, rotational assignments, compensation, and more. IKEA is a great example of this.

Marketing 13

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. Another hedge-fund activist, David Einhorn, was then playing that role). Apple Economy Innovation'

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

This problem of extending the automatic reasoning of AI systems to understand the context of their decisions is highly complex, and creative innovation, like the one at Google, is usually needed to push the effort forward. Product managers that I previously thought were hopeless became effective.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

Uncertainty 309

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Managers and boards are often pushed by investors, fund managers, and analysts to focus intently on a single measure of success, such as shareholder value or profit, and then they do everything they can to maximize it. Companies should be managed much more holistically. I was once a CEO leading a corporate turnaround.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

The executive implications for time management and, more important, people management are enormous. The awkward irony is that this radically increased access gives top management less choice — not more — about how it invests its limited attention. The chairman had artfully hedged and qualified his innovation clichés.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 12