Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of "small data" — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful. I'm not saying that all big-data projects are useless.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices. This year, the Department of Energy, through its National Renewable Energy Laboratory, found that more than one hundred information and communication technology companies that consume an estimated 1.5%

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes, political hacktivists brag about Web pages defaced and customer information released over the Internet, but companies rarely reveal the attacks that result in the loss of valuable intellectual property — business plans, proprietary technologies or fraudulent payments. These attacks can be devastating.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 11

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

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. 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.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 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.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Rehabilitate a misfit.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

The normal culprits for short-termism are short-term-minded hedge-fund managers and activist shareholders, as well as CEOs worried about big bet investments with uncertain paybacks. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Data scientists in business process algorithmization scenarios are project managers. Renaissance Technologies and other, even more secretive investment funds are the management models here. It’s a different kind of engineering.”

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

And while the new electrified vehicles market is growing fast, it’ll be many years until those technologies dominate. I doubt it, since companies and countries aren’t even doing all the clean energy projects that pay back quickly, or don’t require any money down. The Guilt or Enlightenment: Moral Suasion .

NGO 9

NGO Energy Morale Price 9

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Enormous investments have been made in science and technology in Chinese universities. Similarly, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students who study abroad are concentrating overwhelmingly on science and technology. We are not sure this will happen because of institutional rigidities. An Innovation Economy.

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Adi (sorry for the inconsistency, but in my world Huey has almost always been referred to by his last name and Adi always by his first) agreed that while I was good at reasoning and thinking and all that, I didn’t always do it quickly but instead “tend to get bogged down in process and in longer projects.” This is undeniable.

Hedge 9

Hedge Efficiency Information Technology Bottom-up 9

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Hedge Funds will love our data — they will practically buy any set of data that might give them a potential edge”. Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. “We have a treasure trove of data, it’s highly valuable”. “If

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I Doom and Gloom. the interviewer had asked.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

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. It already has a higher market capitalization (although of course some think that’s a bubble ).

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The grand vision at the heart of his last project is now being unveiled as Apple finalizes construction on Apple Park. The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. In other words, what is this project really about?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

Companies can do five things to hedge their bets in turbulent times while opening up options for the future: 1. Re-visit big, inflexible projects — The 80/20 rule often applies to corporate innovation portfolios; a few projects consume the lion's share of cash.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The horrible irony: The very detail-oriented systems (and people) Dimon had put in place had obscured rather than surfaced his bank's horrible hedge. The error rates felt too high and the delays too long, given the clarity of project milestones. The raw material astonished and appalled him.

Micromanagement 16

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. You have to be a macro hedge fund, and not only do you the hedge fund manager have to have nerves of steel, your clients have to have nerves of steel. Lars is famous for that.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The hedge fund founded and run by billionaire Paul Singer just announced that it now owns 6.2% The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

and has studied emerging business and technology trends. Meanwhile, digital transformation projects continue to provide incremental benefits; however, they are not prepared to compete against how digital giants are structured to be winners. What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? ” -Ray Wang.

Disintermediation 131

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131