First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2015

Nick is the author of The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy (Columbia University Press 2014) and was involved in a technical confidential project with one of the world’s largest global macroeconomic hedge funds.

Hedge 70

Hedge Risk Management Media Innovation 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 7, 2015

Nick is the author of The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy (Columbia University Press 2014) and involved in a technical confidential project with one of the world’s largest global macroeconomic hedge funds.

Hedge 70

Hedge Drucker Risk Management Media 70

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time.

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Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 78

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. Having no walls allows team members to bond and increase productivity when they work together on projects. That’s the effect success has on people. These are the hallmarks of a true leader, be it in business or politics.

Hedge 50

Hedge Leadership Learning-by-Doing Micromanagement 50

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You throw away your backup plans and your push forward, no longer bogged down by the infinite ways in which we hedge our own successes.” Proprietary insights are the keys to game-changing businesses : you don’t need a unique project to start an empire, just an intuition all your own.

How To 84

How To Commitment Hedge Resistance 84

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Public companies can have tens, hundreds, or even thousands of individual and institutional shareholders, like mutual fund companies, pension funds, or hedge funds. While a small business can have just one shareholder, the founder, the story is different when it comes to a public company.

Management 91

Management Hedge Efficiency Finance 91

RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 13, 2017

But being able to say no when necessary to protect priorities and keep projects on track is the path to respect. As Kristi Hedges, writing for Forbes suggests , just as CEOs regularly assemble teams of trusted advisers to help them make tough decisions, you can do the same thing, regardless of your current level in the organization.

Collins 203

Collins Mentor Open-book Hedge 203

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Who got the best projects, the largest teams, the raises, and the promotions? Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. Let me let you in on a little secret: Years ago, when many offices made the decision to move from suits to casual dress, most employees sprinted into polo shirts and jeans. What did I do?

Succession 225

Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 225

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 22, 2013

In a similar way, I think that people in the business world should know better than to blindly follow forecasts or other business means of predicting the future, which is exactly what Professor and former hedge fund manager Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues in his book The Black Swan. And why a one-trick pony startup is inherently risky.)

Hedge 45

Hedge Environment Project Politics 45

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

hedge funds. The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects. We continually find that most major transformation initiatives end up being managed as IT projects, with responsibility abdicated to the CIO.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

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.” Our ability to do that – and get it right – is our greatest opportunity to grow our business and our people and play a meaningful role in society. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2021

It’s a narrative that paints a picture of investors backing perhaps a single startup in an industry, but research from Wharton highlights how VCs increasingly hedge their bets across a number of startups, and what’s more, this practice actually improves the efficiency of innovation in that sector. Supporting innovation.

Efficiency 128

Efficiency Innovation Venture Capitalist Hedge 128

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable. I think your approach makes most sense in project teams. Here I'll just add a couple thoughts. In my case.

Consensus 349

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 349

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

One of the tenets of sensible risk taking is to be skeptical of promises and projections. After one hedge fund I know had a horrendous quarter, the managers wrote to clients, saying that they were concentrating 70% of the entire fund into only five stocks. Yet this is hard to do in practice.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Marketing Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” the CEO of the hedge fund yelled at one of his portfolio managers. Another CEO I know had a meeting scheduled with a project team responsible for a high-profile pilot project that held the possibility of a large piece of client work. So, back to the hedge fund CEO’s question: How do you reverse a losing streak?

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Hedge Tactics CEO Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

workforce — are now freelancers or contractors, and that number is projected to rise to 43% by 2020. Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. Don’t fall in love with your first idea.

Webinar 13

Webinar How To Audience Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In most organizations, big data projects get their start when an executive becomes convinced that the company is missing out on opportunities in data. Next, the organization launches a major IT project. This triggers another iteration of the IT project. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? The Traditional Way. More >>.

CIO 15

CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

The company’s original focus was personal lending – individuals borrowing a few thousand dollars here and there to pay off credit card bills or fund a home improvement project. According to Mills’ research, “most [peer-to-peer lenders] are large institutional investors such as hedge funds and investment banks.”

IPO 8

IPO Due Diligence Credit Scoring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The government shifted its focus to creating smaller projects on more well-defined deliverables such as on-time patient appointments. I'm not saying that all big-data projects are useless. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? CXOs with long memories may recall prior panaceas that underdelivered over the long run. Far from it.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

First, making significant amounts of your own power at zero variable cost is more than nice; it’s a hedge against volatility and smooths out expenses, which makes business planning easier. The list included multiple questions about whether the hotel chain purchased or used renewable energy. In this way, Tim Cook is onto something important.

CEO 8

CEO ROI Environment Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

million project to find the genes that cause trees to shed their damn needles everywhere. million project? Don’t hedge or hesitate. Gary Chastagner, the head of a Christmas tree lab at Washington State University, who’s leading a $1.3 Yes: that’s right. A Christmas tree lab. Pretty cool. Is that fiscally responsible?

Hedge 8

Hedge Project Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

It would have been a profitable project and, more important, successful completion would have proved a new product concept. One of my students at London Business School joined a hedge fund and was bummed when he was laid off at the start of the financial crisis. She had worked hard on it. Her face fell and she deflated visibly.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. Major oil and gas producers are now trying to apply lessons from the shale revolution’s use of cutting-edge technologies to reduce development cycle times and costs for offshore conventional oil projects by about 40-50%.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Indeed, I know Silicon Valley and (admittedly younger) hedge fund quant teams who bond and boost morale through their Minecraft bouts. Might a 38-year-old project manager face mockery listing her high-performance Halo scores on her LinkedIn profile? Trust me, these folks will not be golfing at Torrey Pines. The pots impress.).

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Game Theory Bond Hedge 8

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". Big-time scientists were supposed to project an image of supreme competence. households. When he asked his colleagues for help, he was chastised.

Sample 13

Sample Hedge Restructuring Conference 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices. Most credible projections expect the cost of renewable electricity to drop and many traditional sources of electricity to increase. Better forecasting and investment tools can help ensure that projects meet cost-reduction targets.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I had just walked into my daughter’s room as she was working on a science project. But this time, her project involved sand. I felt my fear, projecting into the future: What would her life look like if she couldn’t own her mistakes? The hedge fund manager was angry, the CEO was annoyed. “Whoa!

Hedge 8

Hedge Budgeting Brainstorming Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In most organizations, big data projects get their start when an executive becomes convinced that the company is missing out on opportunities in data. Next, the organization launches a major IT project. This triggers another iteration of the IT project. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? The Traditional Way. More >>.

CIO 8

CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

million in one year from the hedge fund D.E. This gap between what employees of Goldman and its Wall Street peers (including hedge funds, private equity firms, etc.) Sperling is catching flak, though, for something that was first disclosed in 2009 — the fact that he was paid $887,727 in 2008 by Goldman Sachs.

Shaw 12

Shaw Decisionmaking Hedge Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune. You have fewer people who can speak to your contributions or provide support, whether that’s help in securing additional resources for an important project or moving up to a new role.

Brand 15

Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 15

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.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

But she’s moved on to other projects, and today’s hottest designers credit her influence. Craig Venter made waves in 1998 when he and his for-profit company challenged the public Human Genome Project to a DNA-sequencing race. (It British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes has never been afraid to stand out.

Career 13

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful hedge fund managers, insists that his team ruthlessly second-guess his thinking. Alan Mulally, the vaunted CEO who saved Ford Motor Company, is, for example, exceptionally skeptical of his own opinions. The next step is to actually be willing to change your mind.

Dunning 8

Dunning Hedge Open-book Course 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Instead of cutting to the heart of an issue, they tangle it further; rather than narrowing down projects, they allow the scope to keep expanding; and instead of making decisions, they defer until there is more data and better analysis. These behaviors are characteristics of people that I call "complexifiers."

Hedge 8

Hedge Metrics Planning Course 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Soon after, when Khan began tutoring his niece in mathematics while working at a hedge fund, he hit upon the idea of developing short video tutorials on YouTube. Finally, venture philanthropists are willing to invest in projects like Khan’s that can reach millions of people with a modest amount of money.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

As one chief information security officer for a global bank said, "If we did all the security checks we'd like to before connecting with new hedge fund customers, they would just take their business across the street.". Unfortunately, though, it's all too easy to grind your business to a halt with doctrinaire security policies.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12