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5 Tips to Manage Your Finances Before a Recession

Strategy Driven

Here are five tactics to make your finances recession-proof: 1. Hedge Your Income Sources. When you have multiple income sources in a recession, it helps hedge your earnings and diversifies your risk of losses from a particular source of income. However, we sometimes ignore the signs and then repent later.

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Bill Ackman Is Just Doing God's Work

Harvard Business Review

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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A 6-Part Tool for Ranking and Assessing Risks

Harvard Business Review

But sometimes war tactics really can help in business. Among these tactics is CARVER, a system for assessing and ranking threats and opportunities. To consider another example, say a hedge fund is looking to acquire a tech company that claims to have a leading-edge technology. David Crockett/Getty Images.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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How Leaders Should React When Someone Disappoints

Harvard Business Review

” the CEO of the hedge fund yelled at one of his portfolio managers. Maybe it’s help defining a stronger strategy, or brainstorming different tactics, or identifying what went right. So, back to the hedge fund CEO’s question: How do you reverse a losing streak? “Why?” What were you thinking?”

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Warren Buffett Is Betting the Airline Oligopoly Is Here to Stay

Harvard Business Review

He blamed the industry’s notorious low profitability on the “kamikaze pricing tactics of certain carriers” and vowed to not invest in this “death trap” sector again. Warren Buffett got burned with an airline investment in the 1990s.

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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

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.

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