Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

They then hone a distinctive system of capabilities – one competitors can’t match – that will enable the company to deliver on its value promise and sustain lasting competitive advantage. . Hedging bets with multiple options, which reinforces complexity and raises costs.

Strategy 178

Strategy Short-term Competitive Advantage Fixed Assets 178

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

Political, social and economic cultures that have been sustained for long periods of time have these values and systems that don’t (i.e. coercive utopian systems such as communism and fascism), fail because the values they promote work against human flourishing. If they could not outsource they discovered another way.

Organization 186

Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance.

Human Resources 47

Human Resources Deming Resources System 47

Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. One person near the end partially hedged their opinion and said maybe we should give her another chance.

Human Resources 28

Human Resources Deming Resources System 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Those in Clinton’s camp include the venerable Aspen Institute, which produced a 2009 call to arms arguing that corporations’ short-term objectives corrode the “foundation of the American free enterprise system.” Hedge fund activists loom large in the discussion of short-termism. Either explanation is plausible.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

These developments in the retirement system change who is in control of Corporate America. Recently, authorities have taken on hedge funds, alleging they violated this regulation. Now mutual funds are on alert , because they “routinely discuss” topics with portfolio firms much like hedge funds have done.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Among these tactics is CARVER, a system for assessing and ranking threats and opportunities. CARVER is an acronym that stands for: Criticality: how essential an asset or critical system is to your company. To consider another example, say a hedge fund is looking to acquire a tech company that claims to have a leading-edge technology.

Tools 11

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. Automated systems are usually very bad at recognizing context.

Skills 14

Skills Morale Ethics System 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM’s model continued to predict that it was properly hedged against a potential Russian default; the insight that it actually needed — that it was under-hedged and exposed to liquidity risk — could only have come from outside of the model. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In the course of research for their recent book , Harvard scholars Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (and three other researchers including myself) studied three highly successful companies – Bridgewater (hedge funds), Decurion (movie theaters, real estate, and senior living), and Next Jump (e-commerce).

Development 8

Development Company Hedge Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Many companies face quarterly or even more immediate pressure from their shareholders (increasingly made up of hedge funds, program traders, and day traders) to deliver short-term performance.

Long-term 14

Long-term Company Short-term Hedge 14

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 26, 2015

As complex systems, they require systems of measurement to track progress against key goals. When Paul Polman became the CEO of Unilever, for example, he stopped giving analysts earnings guidance, dispensed with quarterly profit reports, and said there’d be no special treatment for hedge funds.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

CEOs live in fear of activist hedge funds, and politicians worry about their effects on workers. Whether they were Western funds, such as Steel Partners and TCI , or Japanese funds, such as Murakami, they found that the entire system conspired to support the embattled companies, no matter how impaired their corporate governance.

ROE 8

ROE Construction Hedge Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The successful CEOs in our study were hyper-vigilant about threats around them (the paranoia part) and also took action to mitigate those threats, whether in the form of building buffers or hedging (the productive part). The system must connect the dots horizontally. The system must be able to handle information overload.

Management 14

Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Miami-Dade Transit allows customers to monitor its system so they can know when to arrive at a stop in time to catch a particular bus. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? That's not so complicated; why can't commercial firms invest in allowing customers to monitor the location of service or delivery techs? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing. But the GE model is dead — and there’s a long list of possible suspects.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves. Is the "cloud" just a passing phase?

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

” We collected data from a private online knowledge-sharing platform where buy-side (hedge fund, mutual fund) investment professionals (analysts, portfolio managers) share their investment recommendations to buy and sell a given security, along with the analysis supporting their position, with other members of this platform. (If

Objective 8

Objective Metrics Sample Hedge 8

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 22, 2016

Starbucks invested in and partnered with Square in 2012 to bring mobile payment systems into its stores using Square’s Wallet app. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. All three options require capital.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

GE’s fall accelerated on October 25, 2015, with activist hedge fund Trian announcing a $2.5 billion equity investment in GE stock, one that made it a top 10 shareholder. GE stock was trading at $25.47 at the time of announcement, with a dividend of $0.92

TSR 9

TSR Company IPO Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Candidates in both parties argue that the wealthy have bent the political system to their own economic benefit. Indeed, even within occupations, many workers are having difficulty learning the skills needed to work effectively with new computer systems. Economic inequality has become a prominent issue in this year’s U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Hedge Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. If a tanker consisted of one big tank of oil, the sloshing liquid would soon capsize the vessel, Soros explains.

Banking 14

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

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. This bundling system has been preposterously great for the content companies. And that means the recent HBO and CBS announcements are less a harbinger and more of a hedge.

Hedge 8

Hedge Licensing Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

And it was the American capitalist system that made this possible. But the American system also made possible the protests we see rippling from Wall Street to cities across the country. And a system that may grant outsized rewards whether the recipient actually creates any value at all. Steve Jobs died a multibillionaire.

Policies 12

Policies Hedge Learning-by-Doing System 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

There are no public shareholders clamoring for higher dividends, no hedge funds gorging on management fees. It is a system of management and governance that includes rank-and-file access to financial information, the right to express opinions without fear of retribution, and elections to boards and councils that have a say in strategy.

Definition 8

Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

That’s why rich people can invest in hedge funds while, for the most part, regular folks can’t. This is especially true of the Federal Reserve System, which was created by Congress in 1913 more as a friend to and creature of the banks than as a watchdog. Profitable banks are generally safer and sounder than unprofitable ones.

Banking 9

Banking Conflict of Interest Hedge Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Similarly, you can be sure that many — if not most — highly-secretive quantitative hedge funds have highly proprietary AH engines relentlessly recommending trading strategies and investment themes that lend themselves to review and refinement.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Information Technology Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

per capita per breach, versus if it’s a system glitch or a human error it’s more like $140.00 The best advanced attacks on our organization are just harder to inoculate against, and harder to get out of the system. For example, when a criminal is involved, the cost for a breach is typically $170.00

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hedge against uncertainty. Lenny Achan, who started his career as a nurse, was ultimately promoted to head up communications at New York’s prestigious Mount Sinai Health System. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. Monique Valcour. Learn new skills. How did he make this unusual career leap?

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

And actually, the anterior insula has what’s known as “spindle cells” that are more commonly found in the digestive system. Already, some hedge funds are exploring whether to use brain scans in evaluating prospective job candidates to see whether they are more risk averse or risk seeking.

Proposal 8

Proposal Participative Hedge Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

In Wisconsin, where beneficiaries of the public pension system share the burden if investments yield poor results, member associations have not only lobbied for greater resources for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board but have kept an eye on politicians to ensure they don’t meddle inappropriately.

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. Another challenge is that this financial information has become widely known and shared, meaning that the investor insights it affords are hardly unique.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Here is another in the CONVERSATIONS AT EDGE series, in this instance a conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. “The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial and error nor “chance” and serendipity can be behind the gains in technology and empirical science attributed to them.

Definition 85

Definition Technology Hedge Engineering 85

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

It does require capital to get in, but new capital has historically flowed into the system. The bank's chief investment office, where the losses occurred, was charged with protecting JP Morgan from financial market volatility by trying to hedge bets made by other parts of the bank. There are few copyrights or patents. When a U.S.

Banking 9

Banking Hedge Constraint Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully. Of course, no system of group risk taking could succeed without positive group dynamics, mutual respect for each other’s abilities, and a collaborative spirit – but that’s true of all teamwork, not just investing.

Tversky 8

Tversky Kahneman Hedge Analysis 8