Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

These arguments have proven highly influential and led to several policy proposals to encourage long-term holdings – so-called “patient capital” France’s Loi Florange doubles investors’ voting rights after two years. Other proposals go further. Productivity also improves in plants sold by hedge funds.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. ” We found that 58% of the shareholder proposals in our sample were filed on immaterial issues.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. Hedge fund activists loom large in the discussion of short-termism. primary season.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Notably, the proposed “ border adjustment ” that is part of a tax reform package Congress is debating could cause the U.S. Options and hedges. Leadership teams that develop strategic options and hedges for a variety of future scenarios navigate better when new developments unfold.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Hedge Automotive Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

During each iteration of the game, two participants known as the “proposer” and “responder” were asked to split an amount of money. The proposer made an offer, and the responder decided whether to accept or reject it. The responders would rather punish the proposers than make a buck themselves.

Proposal 8

Proposal Participative Hedge Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Now, in a New York Times op-ed , Carl Icahn, the billionaire corporate raider turned hedge fund activist, has joined the chorus. ” The purpose of Icahn’s article is to promote a proposal by Sen. The proposal, according to Icahn, would generate an estimated $200 billion in federal tax revenues on those holdings.

Hedge 8

Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

Hedge fund activist Bill Ackman posed that question recently in his fund’s annual letter to investors. 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. laura schneider FOR HBR. It’s a really good one.

Hedge 8

Hedge Proposal Policies Influence 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. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. About a year ago the U.S. When I saw this ad, I thought that I had accidentally switched to a comedy station.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Moreover, career choices are highly sensitive to changes in compensation; as salaries in finance professions rose sharply from 1980 to 2005, the share of workers in investment banks, hedge funds, and similar financial establishments more than doubled. In the U.S.,

Policies 8

Policies Career Hedge Human Capital 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

JULY 22, 2013

Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. Commodities-trading rules and customs that date back to the pre-financial era may not fit the more aggressive tactics of hedge funds and investment banks.

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

An independent board is considered by some to be so important that the drafter of a recent proposal to create a pooled public sector pension fund (one for the employees of several public sector entities) included a radical provision calling for the board to be granted the authority to appoint a majority of its own members.

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 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 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. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. About a year ago the U.S. When I saw this ad, I thought that I had accidentally switched to a comedy station.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. British clearers were also a license to print money back then, so although growth prospects were limited, they made a good, cash-generating strategic hedge. But the kerfuffle raises a more interesting question: Does it really matter if HSBC moves its HQ from London?

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Philosopher Karl Popper famously proposed that to be scientific , a theory had to be falsifiable : that is, it had to make predictions that could be tested and possibly shown to be wrong. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. But data and objectivity can only get you so far.

Management 10

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 10

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

For example, hedge funds automatically filtering out bad data in the form of a negative value for trading volume, which can’t be negative.) Instead of trusting that the brilliant proposed method will seamlessly work, ask lots of questions. This sort of automation has been happening in businesses for decades.

How To 8

How To Learning-by-Doing Hedge Examples 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Soros, while denying taking a position in the ringgit, stated that Mahathir's proposed trading ban was "unworthy of serious discussion.". And by the late 1990's investment banks and hedge funds were in the business of betting for and against currencies. This is the "hot money" that Mahathir referred to.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet look through the 22-page " Proposal for Expanding the Dialogue around the Ideas of Muammar Qadhafi " that Monitor prepared in 2007, and it sure sounds like public relations: As is the case of many individuals who are prominent actors in the world, Qadhafi is well known but is poorly understood, particularly in the West. hedge funds?

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

hedge funds. Addressing these four basic questions is not just something to be done on a one-time basis to secure funding for any proposed investment. Sir Christopher Kelly, a former British senior civil servant, recently produced a damning report , which reviewed the events that led to the £1.5 s Co-operative Bank in June 2013.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. We’d like to propose a solution. What – or who – is a Qualt?

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

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

JANUARY 21, 2014

ValueAct Capital, a San Francisco hedge-fund with more than $11 billion under management had made a habit of investing in a limited number of companies that appeared undervalued or not fully understood by investors—and it now wanted into not only Motorola’s stock but also its boardroom.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

We propose an answer to that question in our new research paper. There’s evidence of this dynamic in the tension between smaller undiversified investors (such as hedge funds) and large asset management companies. Why, then, do company boards and shareholders of most firms approve those packages?

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

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. Additionally, in lieu of granting shareholders additional rights to dictate executive pay (e.g., Shareholders.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

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. 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. In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. Thus, the asset managers are more comfortable with hedge funds, real estate holdings, and trading strategies than in market opportunities in education. It’s a game of responsibility hot potato.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 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. He still contends that those who speak of market “bubbles” are being intellectually sloppy. from 1941 through 1990.

CAPM 8

CAPM Finance Price Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

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. You won't be.

Career 9

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 9

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. The bubble has become an inescapable element of modern economic discourse. What wielders of the term seldom do, though, is say exactly what they mean by it.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Hedge Funds will love our data — they will practically buy any set of data that might give them a potential edge”. At this point, many companies get to work and prepare detailed financial projections that show how many new sales they can achieve every year, what their proposed pricing is, what the year-on-year percentage increase will be.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And functionally, there is no longer a need to ration financial resources; there's more money available than can be productively invested—which is why the financial industry is only minimally about investing, and all about flipping, swapping, hedging, engineering, and other forms of lever-pressing.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Ricky explained that my cousins'' proposal was already common knowledge. He makes his own decisions," I hedged. Tueni seemed much less impressive than he had at the reception. They were trying to build support for it among other family members, and many seemed amenable. But you must persuade him not to accept," he said. "He

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In our view, while the proposal to ban dual-class shares raises important issues, its implementation would do more harm than good, given the challenges from the digital revolution and the growing imperative for established firms to transform their business models.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

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