Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. Army Special Forces believes that adaptability—learning—is predicated on self-efficacy, resiliency, open-mindedness, mastery achievement motivation, and tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty.”

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 281

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. Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters.

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Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 83

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

” Given the scale of the sector, the researchers speculate that automation is likely to result in a few hundred thousand jobs being lost, although they hedge this by stating that many of these jobs are badly paid and generally unpleasant in nature. “We

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Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

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. The HR Digest: Can you share with The HR Digest readers some innovative recruiting strategies that allow Mastercard to compete for talent in America and abroad?

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

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? Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 307

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. Re-evaluating buffers to a more uncertain environment.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. Indeed, the Center for Talent Innovation’s research on sponsorship shows that one of the best ways to attract a coveted senior-level sponsor is to develop a strong personal brand.

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Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The idea is to create a new and separate division that meets competition while ensuring that new innovations are as minimally disruptive (in the old sense of the world) to the core business as possible. Here is the problem: none of the three disruptors I have outlined here are traditional Christensen-style innovations.

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Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

By taking the time to learn these skills, though, you can use data to reduce uncertainty, increasing the chances of making sound decisions. Innovate products, services, and processes. Hedge funds and used car dealers use such data to create and leverage asymmetries. Exploit asymmetries. Test options and learn quickly!

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Company Insurance Content Policies 10

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. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They are dealing with the environment; successfully making the shift from an infrastructure state to a consumer society; becoming an innovative economy; having a positive impact on the world order; and finally, and perhaps most importantly, making the transition from Xi Jinping’s “Seven No’s” to a more sustainable political model.

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Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

That is to say, the uncertainties about Apple’s future trajectory — even over just the next couple of years — are staggering. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance' It is in a sector where seemingly healthy, hugely profitable corporations (Nokia, Blackberry) have been effectively wiped out within the space of a couple of years.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

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. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Exit from the Euro would only increase that capital scarcity, as the foreign exchange uncertainties would need to be factored in. What happened was that the EU and taxpayers got dodgy Greek debt to help EU (but non-Greek) banks and hedge funds, which duly made a killing.

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Moreover, the Box 3 methodology for creating the future consists of leaps of faith and experimentation that are fraught with uncertainty and risk.

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Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. While businesses shouldn't react to economic uncertainty in knee-jerk fashion, the recent tumble in equity prices cannot be ignored. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

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Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Rich Gee Group

APRIL 17, 2023

In "Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know," Grant takes readers on a journey to understand how changing our minds can lead to growth, innovation, and personal transformation. What we need, he argues, is to become more like "scientists"—embracing uncertainty, seeking new evidence, and updating our beliefs accordingly.

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Books Open-book Hedge Construction 195

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

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. How can RIM (and other companies in the same boat) chart effective strategy in uncertainty? A look at root causes of failed and successful efforts gives a clear view.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. These “bitcoin whales” are currently the ones who make or break many of the ICOs.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

You have to be a macro hedge fund, and not only do you the hedge fund manager have to have nerves of steel, your clients have to have nerves of steel. Instead what he says is let’s have financial innovation that is actually helpful. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' But these changes in thinking take a very long time.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

That way, when the going is good, you can maximize your upside yield on assets like ticket sales and merchandise, and when the team isn’t performing quite as well, you have a hedge in place to protect your downside risk. Strategy execution Managing uncertainty Managing organizations'

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Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets. Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. Redundancy.

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Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

One thing we can say with confidence is that uncertainty will remain high for some time in politics, macroeconomics, and business, at both global and national levels. To respond to this challenge, companies will need to become more sophisticated about strategy during uncertainty in five ways. Match Your Strategy to the Environment.

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Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Previous research has shown that periods of such uncertainty are typically accompanied by higher levels of lobbying as organizations attempt to hedge the risks they face. The COVID landscape is nothing if not uncertain, with the pandemic largely forcing us to take things on a day-by-day basis.

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Politics Hedge Policies Sample 120