Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, investors can use physical precious metals as a hedge against currency devaluation or inflation. These assets can also be used as a store of value and a potential hedge against geopolitical risks. They have a higher investment power and are often sold for a small price. Both can be a hedge against inflation.

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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.” Culture can be an enabler and that’s the power we want to unlock at Mastercard. They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. " If only someone in power could hear that!!! Why do we crave leadership nowadays? Because there is so little of it around!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Yet the unfortunate side effect of uncompetitive markets is that consumers pay higher prices. Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. Index funds have given millions of people relatively low-cost access to the stock market. trillion in assets.

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Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. An investor can outperform the market by simply waiting to collect the dividend. However, a decade of research finds that hedge fund activism raises firm value by 7%, with no long-term reversal. What about innovation?

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

In a highly productive organization the power and influence of your voice is earned through trust and performance, and not entitlement. A lesson in the power of brevity from Mr. Weiss… [link] Dan Rockwell Hi John, I like what you said in your book about team decision making. link] Principal (le?) learning » Leadership thinking [.]

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

Hedge fund activist Bill Ackman posed that question recently in his fund’s annual letter to investors. And if so, are they using that power? Unlike high-profile activist hedge funds, which attempt to outperform the market, the primary goal of passive investors is to deliver returns that match a market index.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Most employees have been hurt or disappointed, at some point in their careers, by the hand of power in an organization. Before a team can reach its full potential, leaders must act in ways that transcend employees’ fears of organizational power. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing. It was developed by Japan and South Korea in the 1980s and is used widely by emerging markets from Brazil to India.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

As the barrier dissolves between political and commercial power structures, the book raises questions about large multinationals whose budgets are bigger than small countries’ and CEOs who have growing roles as statespeople. Science fiction isn’t useful because it’s predictive.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In the course of researching my new book Entrepreneurial You , I discovered three strategies that allowed leading online marketers to build trusting, respect-based relationships with their customers. I was intrigued by these stories because Internet marketers are often derided by critics due to some practitioners’ scammy tactics.

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Audience Video Marketing Hedge 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Most employees have been hurt or disappointed, at some point in their careers, by the hand of power in an organization. Before a team can reach its full potential, leaders must act in ways that transcend employees’ fears of organizational power. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Cambridge Group conducted a Pricing Power Study across 124 everyday consumable categories using Nielsen data from 2008 to 2010. For example, lower income shoppers appear willing to pay more now to hedge future costs. Is the category a hedge, an investment with a greater benefit payoff or a cost to be managed?

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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The internet may seem to exist in the ether, but its plumbing includes a vast network of data centers, also known as server farms, which need power to function. If the world is to become ever more efficient and reach global climate goals, internet power will need to play its part.

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Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

The velocity in acquiring and exploiting this personal data can help these companies obtain significant market power. Is it OK for a few firms to possess so much data and thereby wield so much power? He noted his agency’s “particular concerns in digital markets.” In the U.S., and Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. So, on balance, having a futures market appears better than not having a futures market.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. Most of these theoretically increase the power of individual investors, too, but for the most part individuals aren''t a factor in corporate elections. That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Since say-on-pay hit the U.S.

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Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 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. 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 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In the sense that financial markets and the economy in general are far more fragile than most mainstream economists contemplated before 2008, there was a bit of unlearning done in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 1987 stock market crash was a scare. Summers, meanwhile, is the second most powerful economic official in the U.S.

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Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees. There are no public shareholders clamoring for higher dividends, no hedge funds gorging on management fees. to $15 per hour.

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Investors who have significant money tied up in the fossil fuel industry — every pension and market fund, essentially — are facing a massive risk. Very few politicians will take on those powerful lobbies, so a price on carbon is likely a fantasy in the U.S. Companies and consumers could also decide it’s cool to use clean power.

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NGO Energy Morale Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

These days, most firms’ most powerful shareholders tend to benefit more from the performance of the entire industry than the performance of an individual firm. Magnifying their already large individual power, large asset managers also appear to coordinate many corporate governance activities, including those regarding compensation.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

If anything, he views HBO’s move less like sedition and more like uncertain hedging, and one that could help platform players ultimately continue to thrive. The real power players in the current arrangement are the cable channels. . “It’s a marketing ploy to get fledgling networks established.”

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Hedge Licensing Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

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. For corporations to make the required long-term investments in production, marketing, etc.,

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Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Because of their direct links with farmers, processors, and consumers, they have the power to influence every facet of the supply chain. This is partly due to the tendency to grow more than needed as a hedge against weather and disease and fluctuating wholesale and retail orders. Food waste starts at farms in the value chain.

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 Maybe a slimmed-down GE with only aviation, power, and renewable energy businesses will be able to focus on the strategy task of improving the customer competitiveness of that portfolio. Good luck with that, GE and Trian!

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TSR Company IPO Hedge 9

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Sheelah Kolhatkar, in a cover story (and what a classy cover it is) in the new Bloomberg Businessweek , argues that the great alternative to plain-vanilla equity and debt investing — the hedge fund — is more or less over, too. stock market returns outpace economic growth, that money has to come from somewhere. So when U.S.

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Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM’s model continued to predict that it was properly hedged against a potential Russian default; the insight that it actually needed — that it was under-hedged and exposed to liquidity risk — could only have come from outside of the model. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6% Mahathir stood his ground, not just at Davos but in the financial markets, by refusing the IMF's aid, reducing Malaysia's interest rates, and restricting currency trading.

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Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

You might even have startups beating down your door, pitching you their new “AI-powered” product. For example, hedge funds automatically filtering out bad data in the form of a negative value for trading volume, which can’t be negative.) Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Hedge Examples 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. 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 8