Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Postal Service ran an ad campaign warning about the dangers of email and proposed paper-mail as a safer and more reliable alternative. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. About a year ago the U.S.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

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 308

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

From my advisory work, research, and private discussions with executives and board members of pension funds, pension funds that succeed in keeping politics at bay combine strong governance with deft, often pre-emptive, management of issues that could spark a political backlash. Deft, pre-emptive management. Strong governance.

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Instead of recommendation engines that suggest what book to read or TV series to watch, AH engines will propose new titles and concepts for media consumption. Does anyone doubt that Amazon and Netflix want to use their exabytes of data to craft new products and services for customers and partners?

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Postal Service ran an ad campaign warning about the dangers of email and proposed paper-mail as a safer and more reliable alternative. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. About a year ago the U.S.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

hedge funds. We continually find that most major transformation initiatives end up being managed as IT projects, with responsibility abdicated to the CIO. There was also a lack of clarity about responsibilities for deliverables: People interviewed for the the report described “managers managing managers, managing managers.”

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

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. We’d like to propose a solution.

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

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. We propose an answer to that question in our new research paper. public companies.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. For a Hong Kong-based bank that was a symbol of imperial British commerce, London is a much more familiar place than New York, and a British bank much less alien to manage than an American one would be, let alone a European one.

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Doyne Farmer , a Los-Alamos-National-Laboratory-scientist-turned-hedge-fund-manager-turned-Santa-Fe-Institute-professor, has bent over backwards not to be ignorant and arrogant about economics. And economists are dubious of his proposals for massive agent-based computer models of the economy. In recent years J.

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

He cited the International Monetary Fund's 1997 judgment that "Malaysia is a good example of a country where the authorities are well aware of the challenges of managing the pressures that result from high growth and of maintaining a sound financial system amidst substantial capital flows and a booming property market."

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

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. When ValueAct called to propose a board seat, Brown was surprised. A partner with ValueAct, Bradley E.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We propose a four-pronged strategy to help retailers reduce food waste as it occurs in food farming and food production, in the stores themselves, and during consumption. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Hedge Funds will love our data — they will practically buy any set of data that might give them a potential edge”. For example, a product evaluating nonprofit organizations may be highly useful to a wealth manager seeking to help his client to select a charity as part of a value-added tax efficiency service. Sometimes that makes sense.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Every day somebody is proclaiming a new one , arguing that there isn’t one , proposing ways to prevent one , or complaining about how hard they are to prevent. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' The bubble has become an inescapable element of modern economic discourse. Not that it’s really up to me, of course.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

But his students have with his encouragement documented lots of apparent market inefficiencies, and his own empirical work has done as much damage to the EMH as he proposed it in 1969 as Shiller’s has. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' He still contends that those who speak of market “bubbles” are being intellectually sloppy.

CAPM 8

CAPM Finance Price Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My grandfather ran the exports, while my great-uncle managed the palm plantation. My father would put more professional managers in key positions. Nonfamily managers were elevated to executive positions and invited to become shareholders, although family members still owned the majority of shares. I laughed at that one.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Council of Institutional Investors (CII), representing managers of $25 trillion assets, recently demanded limiting any company’s dual-class share structure to seven years. The costs of letting management entrench itself eventually outweigh the benefits of shielding the company from short-term investors.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

In Sweden, the largest three to five shareholders are invited to sit on the nominations committee to screen and propose director candidates for shareholder approval at the annual general meeting. One European fund manager, for example, seeks to meet every individual nominated for the board at their investee firms. Shareholders.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

of middle managers in the U.S. This will feel a bit like taking a test (or proposing an idea or making a pitch) while feeling unprepared. I ( Whitney ) went from studying music to equity research to co-founding a hedge fund and couldn't be happier now writing, speaking and advising on innovation. but only 4.2% You won't be.

Career 9

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 9

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Many leaders have been beaten over the head by financial owners like venture capitalists, equity funds, or hedge funds to believe that both the vision and all objectives should be financial. When someone proposes a new strategy or action, examine how it might complement or compromise ones you’ve already agreed to pursue.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

For example, one of her key proposals is for shares to be held well beyond the current minimum period of one year before the profits from their sale are taxed as a capital gain. ” Put simply, for combating value extraction at the expense of value creation, both Dodd-Frank and Hillary Clinton’s proposals miss the mark.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In the 1930s, philosopher Karl Popper proposed a synthesis, in which the only scientific approach was to formulate hypotheses (using deduction, induction, or both) that were falsifiable. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? That is, they generated predictions that — if they failed to pan out — disproved the hypothesis.

Hedge 16

Hedge Committee Open-book Policies 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In the 1930s, philosopher Karl Popper proposed a synthesis, in which the only scientific approach was to formulate hypotheses (using deduction, induction, or both) that were falsifiable. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? That is, they generated predictions that — if they failed to pan out — disproved the hypothesis.

Hedge 9

Hedge Committee Open-book Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

Plenty of policy changes have been proposed to address this imbalance, but what, if anything, can companies do on their own to put a dent in income inequality? “Where’s the hedge fund or private equity firm that has formed on the basis of buying companies and raising wages for increased profit?” ” he asks.

CEO 8

CEO Power Price Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

3) hedge bets by building products and services on multiple platforms in order to compete on the same terms as digital giants in ways that are least likely to get regulated. As humans, we often make a decision a second but re quire weeks, months, and maybe even years for management approval. What role do you see AI playing?

Disintermediation 130

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130