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.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Span of Control Hedge 150

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Hedge-fund group SAC Capital Advisors LP and federal prosecutors have agreed in principle on a penalty exceeding $1 billion in a potential criminal settlement that would be the largest ever for an insider-trading case, according to people familiar with the matter. The payment by SAC, run by star manager Steven A. SAC CEO Steven A.

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Hedge Taylorism Taylor Ethics 77

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.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. For you older folk, pay attention to hair that appears in strange places (nose/ears/face/hands) — I get more scared as I get older and see my hair migrate from my head to the Twilight Zones of my face. Also, good dental hygiene is important too. Unported License.

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Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 225

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance.

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Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

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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. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. Leadership teams can limit the negative consequences of a possible NAFTA withdrawal and currency moves by adopting an approach that anticipates several future scenarios. producers to lower their prices in foreign markets, raising demand for U.S.

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Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Or at least the market''s. Then there''s JC Penney, where Ackman''s push to remake the retailer under the leadership of former Apple Stores chief Ron Johnson has ended in red ink and recriminations. I''m not joining in. But he''s doing God''s work.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership.

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Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

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

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. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

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". Today''s work requires a new leadership paradigm. Gender Leadership Managing people Managing yourself' households.

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Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

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Hedge Class Video Career 314

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?

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. Pretty soon, I was managing the highest-performing team in the company.”

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Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Eliminating stock-based compensation would help reduce the incentive for executive leadership to focus on the short term. Many companies face quarterly or even more immediate pressure from their shareholders (increasingly made up of hedge funds, program traders, and day traders) to deliver short-term performance.

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Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And isn’t lowering costs exactly what managers focused on shareholder value are supposed to be doing? Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. Understanding how to manage reputation risk starts with understanding the elements of reputation. Vision and leadership. Emotional appeal.

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Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

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

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

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. Unlike in the smaller Gulf states such as the UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia has a comparably large, regionally and economically heterogenous society to manage.

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Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

With the first approach, companies seek significant mismatches between their existing organizational capabilities and the markets they serve. They ask: Where are opportunities to introduce something totally unexpected in a market we already serve, with an offering we can deliver tomorrow with little additional investment?

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. As owners of private label food products and shelf space, large food retailers can play a leadership role here.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question. Nor are they entirely innocent. The growing economic inequality that polarizes U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners'' flagship fund, one of the world''s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. You remember how huge Nokia was.

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Stuart Roden, Co Fund Manager of Lansdowne Partners’ flagship fund, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, tells me he sees one of his primary roles as being the person who challenges his staff to consider how they could be wrong, and then assess how this might impact on their decision-making. They killed it!”

Consensus 9

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Southwest’s decision in 2007 to hedge against increases in the price of jet fuel proved remarkably prescient. In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s. The leadership teams at AOL and Time Warner were hardly boneheaded. Each time, no turnaround materialized.

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Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

I managed my restaurant from my hospital bed, by writing the menus, for example. ” And she admits she “was not initially the best manager.” ” “It took a while for me to understand that management is an art… I learned that you really can’t expect everyone to be just like you.

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

The decor varies greatly in the offices of the 550 CEOs, government officials, and heads of NGOs interviewed as part of our research on leadership — but hands down, photos are the most popular accessory. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar.

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Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. In doing so, activist investors are not just benefitting from a company’s leadership.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8