Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

” For example, researchers in one study could predict whether participants would choose to buy stocks or a bond by looking at their brain scans. The researchers then compared the brain scans of the participants who were about to make money with drug addicts high on cocaine. But know that it might not stay that way forever.

Proposal 8

Proposal Participative Hedge Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. In response, they can choose to participate in more deals or bigger deals.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. How should companies hedge against the practice of copying your products as you go into those markets? IKEA is a great example of this.

Marketing 12

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. insider trading by hedge funds. have centered on. Bharara has not filed charges (yet?)

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

When they’re hiring, companies are looking to find out what candidates have really done — not what they’ve participated in or watched, but what they’ve done. Do You Feel Lucky, Punk? At least, that’s what Neil Roseman was looking for when he was Technology VP for Amazon and Zynga. A 4-Point Guide to Fighting Bill Ackman Fortune.

Fraser 15

Fraser Management Hedge Simon 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. But the new commodities market participants may have made things worse, as Kocieniewski''s aluminum findings seem to show. So what''s the solution?

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

On the other hand, some sectors involve “zero sum” endeavors, in which profits come at the expense of other market participants. The benefits from medical research are even larger, amounting to over one-fifth of total income in the U.S. Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market.

Policies 8

Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. Develop a work environment in which people are more intrinsically inspired to participate in pro-organization behaviors. It views morality as a kind of bank account. So when we behave badly, we still can consider ourselves, on balance, good people.

Licensing 8

Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

CEOs live in fear of activist hedge funds, and politicians worry about their effects on workers. Shareholder activism is a quintessentially American form of investing. In the U.S., The jury is still out on Abe’s corporate governance reforms.

ROE 8

ROE Construction Hedge Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

“It was just trying to hedge my bets, so if nobody bought, I could walk away from it.” And because he had such a close view on where participants were getting stuck, and which material they wanted more or less of, he felt confident that when he launched it more broadly, it would resonate with a wider audience.

Audience 8

Audience Video Marketing Hedge 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. And that means the recent HBO and CBS announcements are less a harbinger and more of a hedge. Or as Hazlett calls it, “a straddle.”

Hedge 9

Hedge Licensing Mass Marketing Price 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

An unfortunate reality of many African economies is that only a tiny fraction of the population participates in the formal economy. Firms are realizing what microfinance has known for a while: Local self-policing groups, or village headmen who police honor codes, can hedge cash flows in far-flung places. Top of the Pyramid.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

For instance, in one study conducted by Abigail Scholer and her colleagues at Columbia, participants invested $5 in a particular stock. Incidentally, Iksil was head of the Chief Investment Office, the purpose of which is to protect the bank by hedging some of its other riskier bets.

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Tversky Hedge Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bridgewater Associates, which was founded by Ray Dalio in 1975, is the largest hedge fund in the world, managing almost $160 billion. Its size and success are not the only interesting thing about the company. Another is Dalio’s philosophy of “radical transparency,” a topic he discusses in his new book, Principles.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Travel Open-book Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Digital platforms are grease for the flywheel, facilitating the rapid exchange of value between network participants at near-zero marginal cost. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

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. An important engine for economic growth is the creation of new enterprises.

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

We have worked with banks willing to take on toxic assets (again) and hedge funds willing to take a $100 million gamble on a failing company. The most forward-looking companies are willing to take risks to achieve greatness. Most leaders give lip service to this idea, but few actually do it.

Stress 8

Stress Hedge Training Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

While there is little prospect for political reform on a wider scale — Saudi Arabia is and remains a traditional monarchy with limited public participation in policymaking — the current reform process is an important one, and one indicative of the sort of the socio-economic challenges the Gulf oil producers increasingly face.

Politics 8

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

With their participation, the market in question becomes more efficient. It has spurred the growth of an entire industry that exists only to exploit volatility: the hedge fund business. They are useful. They help sellers find buyers and vice versa. That dark side has not gone unnoticed.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The first-ever cyber-commencement address given by “ Rossum ” — a machine intelligence running a $22 billion hedge fund—to the graduating class of a top-tier technical university somewhere in America before the year 2030. . I am confident at a 97.5% level that I will not be the last.

Biotechnology 9

Biotechnology Technology Class Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. With these, you actually participate in the upside of your customers, and therefore your business grows with them. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Of course, the wisest among us will always hedge our forecasts with qualifiers such as “will likely” or “is apt to.”

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

When acclaimed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones revealed his opinion that women become much less effective as stock traders or investors once they have children, he was, in a sense, suggesting that the distraction of motherhood—a distinctly feminine condition—exceeds that of other attention-siphoning activities.

Presenteeism 8

Presenteeism Hedge Report Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Sometimes, the chatter would yield something useful, and one of the participants would head back to her desk with a new idea." In this fascinating and slightly hard-to-believe story, Mina Kimes explains why Eddie Lampert runs Sears like a hedge fund, splitting the operation into 30 independent divisions with their own CEOs, CMOs, and boards.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Advertising Hedge CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. How has Bezos done this?

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

One quant designer at a New York hedge fund (that trades more in a week than a Fortune 250 company makes in a year) confided: “It took years for us to trust the algorithms enough to resist the temptation to override them… There are still [occasional] trades we won’t make and [not doing them] almost always costs us money.”

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

But people also hedge with words because they are not familiar with structured ways to set probabilities. More than 11,000 people participated. Lesson 2: Use structured approaches to set probabilities. As discussed, one reason people use ambiguous words instead of precise probabilities is to reduce the risk of being wrong.

Survey 8

Survey Hedge Analysis Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

He has shown that asset prices have a tendency to overshoot, but he’s nonetheless generally a big believer in financial markets , frequently arguing that what we need are more markets and more ways to hedge our risks.

CAPM 8

CAPM Finance Price Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

People feel envy and regret they haven’t participated. And a former Fama PhD student, hedge fund manager Cliff Asness, argued at the time that even if his professor was right about the dot-coms, there clearly was a bubble in the equity of already established, already profitable tech companies.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Market participants are much more likely to mistake old news for new when the old information is drawn from multiple sources than when it is directly reprinted from a single previous story. Broker dealers and hedge funds are much quicker, on average, to click on any given piece of news than banks or large investment management companies.

Price 9

Price Hedge Influence Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Data compiled from the network surveys I give my participants shows that we are still not using networks to our best advantage. That’s fine if an executive is looking to move elsewhere, as some of my participants were. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. So, many of the letters never got out of Nebraska.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

For instance, in a recent study of residents training to be physicians, almost half of the women described “apprehension in appearing ‘bossy’ when leading cardiopulmonary resuscitation drills,” whereas no male participants expressed this concern. she shouldn’t need any supervision).

Letter 11

Letter Hedge Short-term Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

First, and most conspicuous, in exercises, the consequential decision is identified for participants. Instead of confronting the challenge of identifying which of the many hundreds of decisions made each day have ethical overtones, exercises hand the specific dilemma to participants.

Ethics 8

Ethics Training Biotechnology Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ” Many of them are in China, but there are also hedge funds and bitcoin investment funds who hold massive amounts of bitcoin. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Pretending that a collaborative process will gain alignment simply invites passive-aggressive behavior, with participants feigning assent while they try to undermine key decisions behind the scenes. These moves require limited investment while providing critical hedges against unexpected changes in the marketplace.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Seven participants in our workshop said they are worried about Brexit leading them into a price war with competitors, while six were worried competitors would change their offerings to better fit customer needs, undermining their overall performance and market position. How to Plan for Brexit.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The economist Robert Shiller has suggested issuing bonds that are linked to GDP, arguing that "the opportunity to participate in the uncertain economic growth of the issuer might well excite, rather than scare off, investors — just as it does in the stock market.". Clearly, a new approach is desperately needed.

GDP 8

GDP Bond How To Banking 8