Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

We find the debate interesting because it offers a great example of reputation risk – and more specifically, of why such risk has to be assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. But as damage to institutional reputations becomes a more potent threat, that overwhelmingly quantitative bias won’t serve organizations well.

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

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. Both can be a hedge against inflation. These investments are also a good hedge against inflation.

Hedge 122

Hedge Price Short-term Reputation 122

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. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

When executives complain about activist hedge funds, it’s often under the cover of short-termism. Perhaps the reason CEOs don’t care for activists is that activist investors often fire CEOs, change their compensation, and harm their reputations. That view isn’t well supported by the evidence.

CEO 8

CEO Hedge Reputation Short-term 8

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.

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We all know developing a personal brand is valuable, since a strong reputation can put you on the radar for exciting career opportunities. Your brand is also a powerful hedge against professional misfortune. And any staffing changes might disrupt the hard-fought reputational capital you’ve built.

Brand 15

Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Yet, it’s essential to your reputation. The CEO’s reputation for trustworthiness had been wounded forever.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

While this is great advice for a cash-constrained startup with little reputation, brand image, or a large group of premium-paying loyal customers to loose, this is not a smart strategy for Apple. Apple does it right rather than fast. It has always defied the popular Silicon Valley adage of failing often and failing fast.

Creativity 16

Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 16

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Yet, it’s essential to your reputation. The CEO’s reputation for trustworthiness had been wounded forever.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. His response: “While I think using 13Fs to track hedge fund stock-pickers works great, in my mind it works less so for the activist guys.” Why’s that? Nice work, if you can get it.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

IBM's stock (and reputation) did not take off immediately , and many people questioned the wisdom of becoming a services and knowledge business. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. These businesses now make up more than half the company. Of course, none of these shifts are easy.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants. How is this state of affairs possible? When this happens, the value creation will be substantial.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 27, 2018

They’re fearful their business is going to go under and they hedge their bets. Withholding crucial and important information from your people is damaging to your reputation with them. Giving them the information they need to make wise, informed decisions helps improve your reputation with your team.

Leadership 240

Leadership Hotels Proposal Planning 240

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

One example would be activist hedge funds, which are known to push for and successfully implement product market strategies that increase the market share of a target firm at the expense of its competitors. ” In contrast to his reputation, Buffett didn’t “pick stocks” in this case so much as pick an industry.

Airlines 8

Airlines Price Hedge Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

The former chair of a large Canadian pension fund told me, “We pay a lot of attention to reputational risk — anything to avoid politicians looking, including moderating pay pre-emptively. We pay competitively but no hedge fund-size packages.”

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

IBM's stock (and reputation) did not take off immediately , and many people questioned the wisdom of becoming a services and knowledge business. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility. These businesses now make up more than half the company. Of course, none of these shifts are easy.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

He's replacing the controversial and sometimes cranky Larry Summers, and has a reputation for being less controversial and even less cranky. 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.)

Shaw 13

Shaw Decisionmaking Hedge Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Even deeper, if you have a reputation for excellence in a domain, it will feed on itself and give you preferential access to new knowledge and information because of your insider status. And if you know a great deal about a given domain, you have a rich base on which to draw. In professional services, experts can write their own ticket.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

In the wake of its significant trading losses (now reportedly rising from $2 to $3 billion or more), JP Morgan can win back some of its lost reputation by transparently holding those responsible to account. Instead, the problems here involve, at a minimum, outsized losses and material harm to reputation.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management 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

JANUARY 30, 2013

The article (it's behind a seemingly unbreachable paywall) has acquired the reputation of having marked the end of the dot-com boom. 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.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Equity investors (venture capitalists, private equity, portfolio managers, mutual/hedge fund managers) will use this index to complement existing financial and intangible analysis and gain a more thorough and rigorous understanding of firm’s full market value.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Short-sighted decisions that increase quarterly earnings do not create shareholder value if they also undermine a company’s reputation and long-term worth. -based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal. Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 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 That decision turned out to have serious consequences.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

In any case, the inaction allowed what''s described as "absolutely unsophisticated and uninteresting" malicious code to wreak havoc on the company''s reputation and customers'' lives. There may have been some skepticism about the system, because it was new to Target.

McGregor 8

McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 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

DECEMBER 24, 2014

We asked him about his reputation as a tough boss. ” Educator Salman Kahn – who left his hedge-fund job to found the wildly successful online learning nonprofit Kahn Academy – talked with us about the importance of work-life balance. If it brings you something else, that’s a plus.”

Career 13

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

And by the late 1990's investment banks and hedge funds were in the business of betting for and against currencies. In turn, this would have real world impact on its citizens. His scenario was credible—he named George Soros as his chief antagonist. This is the "hot money" that Mahathir referred to.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Or how likely is all this to hurt McKinsey's reputation? They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S Okay, this might seem a slightly parochial perspective, bordering on squirrely. Was it only ten years ago that the profits of the top 10 U.S.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

He makes his own decisions," I hedged. A coup could be devastating to our reputation with analysts and outside investors, not to mention the morale of nonfamily executives, who might question whether they have a future at the company.". They were trying to build support for it among other family members, and many seemed amenable.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Update: Politico's Ben White did have a brief testimonial from hedge fund manager and Goldman client Whitney Tilson this morning.) Goldman did have a reputation for looking out for its clients — and inspiring great loyalty in them. It's also certainly true that Goldman hasn't been great about managing its reputational risk.

Hedge 13

Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Alternative challengers for the alpha spot come from statistics, thanks to a century-long reputation for rigor and mathematical superiority. To this end, one way to spot a good analyst is that they use softened, hedging language. What about analysts? Analytics as a second-class citizen.

Organization 15

Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Also, assess how well you are staying on top of your personal brand (as in reputation) and what it says and means to others. The only hedge is continual reinvention. Ask yourself the tough question: "How well am I doing at acquiring sought-after skills and competencies?" Take action when you don't like the answer.

Career 15

Career CEO Hedge Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Menlo Park venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz joined USV in investing in Polychain Capital , a hedge fund that only buys tokens. The New York–based venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV) broadened its investment strategy so that it could buy ICOs directly.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8