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Nick Gogerty: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

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.

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Nick Gogerty: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

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, […].

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Small Firms Shifting Horizons As A Result Of Brexit

The Horizons Tracker

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.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

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?

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

But CEOs serious about confronting autonomy opportunity and risk should consider four proven organizational options. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here.

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. Another challenge is that this financial information has become widely known and shared, meaning that the investor insights it affords are hardly unique.

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A Remedy for Soaring Executive Pay: Focus Less on It

Harvard Business Review

Some countries have been highly innovative in this area. The board of a Canadian pension fund with a significant in-house investment function made it clear to senior managers that they would be well compensated relative to society, but their pay would never reach the levels of hedge funds and private equity firms.).