The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2022

Hedging bets. For example, Steve Wozniak remained an employee at Hewlett-Packard long after co-founding Apple, Pierre Omidyar launched eBay while working for the software development company General Magic, and, with the help of investors, Henry Ford founded the Detroit Automobile Group while employed by the Edison Illuminating Company.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Hedge Long-term Commitment 122

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Leadership 120

Leadership Hedge Sharpe Executive Coaching 120

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. See what two not yet 20 year olds were able to do and sustain. by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012.

Incentives 171

Incentives Marketing Microfinance Entrepreneur 171

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality.

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

If automation is restricted to Sun Belt states (including Florida, Texas and Arizona)—because the technology may not initially work well in rough weather—about 10% of the operator hours will be affected,” they explain. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once. We hope to help resolve these controversies.”.

Osborne 75

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 75

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 78

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 78

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 78

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 60

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. He is a Minnesota hedge fund manager and an off-road racer who won the 2013 Dakar Challenge by posting the fastest adjusted time combined from two major desert races—the Tecate SCORE Baja 500 and the Eldorado HDRA Reno 500.

Hedge 60

Hedge Leadership Sharpe Strategic Planning 60

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2018

Because so many of the modern approaches to the any industry is hedging its bets on automation, and with the advent of driverless trucks on the horizon, the average truck driver is, naturally, very concerned about their earning potential. Are Drivers Being Put Out Of Jobs?

Industry 58

Industry Hedge Entrepreneur Bond 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” That requires us to invest in developing both current and future skills. Louis to develop a customized, cyber skills program for employees. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is perhaps its greatest asset and preserving it requires Apple to make sure the ecosystems, technology, product design all meet a much higher standard than any of its competitors. The iBeacon technology sets them for some big stuff in revolutionizing the retail experience (as does the hiring of Musa Tariq from Burberry).

Creativity 17

Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. A key constraining resource in traditional venture is a VC investor's time.

Hedge 15

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? Specialized trade shows and conferences such as the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference that draw fringe players and startups can provide unusual perspectives on future technologies and are refreshingly devoid of consultants and other CIOs.

CIO 15

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 15

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 14

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 14

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 15

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

But it turns out there are very few that are great and relentless at people development. What is unique about these companies is that they have built their cultures to support the development of all of their people, every day. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. I had developed a pretty good playbook. Insight Center.

Development 8

Development Company Hedge Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In “The Employee Experience” study, we found that 73% of employees surveyed agree that the longer they use their technology devices, the more they desire a visual break such as taking a walk or looking through unobstructed windows to an outside view. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Call Center Hedge Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. Global giants have to increasingly ask emerging markets branches to go from acting as local distributors to serving as local developers.

Marketing 14

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. The underlying technology is PowerPoint but it is accelerated beyond what one could do in a lecture hall.

Video 15

Video Education Christensen Hedge 15

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. Clean Magic Eraser, were breakthrough hits, but they probably cost a good deal to develop. This is no way to nurture the growth prospects of tomorrow. Uncertain economic times present an excellent vowel-buying opportunity.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Heins needs to pay attention up front to defining the challenges carefully.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

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. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? More >>.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. The conflict between the IMF and Malaysia was a sign of a tipping point in the developed economies, shifting from a world of capital scarcity to one of abundance.

Banking 13

Banking ROE Self-aware Proposal 13

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. To be sure, robots will help people develop these types of skills, but a person – preferably you – will possess them.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

One reason for the change, of course, is the rise of mobile technology. Developers, no surprise, are flocking to mobile gaming as well, but as a few experts say in the piece, they may want to hedge their expectations a bit: it’s a crowded field out there, and the Big Three are still kings. THE LIMITS OF ALGORITHMS.

Hedge 8

Hedge Long-term Report Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Steve Jobs and Apple dreamed, developed, and created products that changed the world. Jobs made technology fun, accessible, and powerful and in so doing he reimagined the ways we could live our lives. This is why hedge funds that profit while 401Ks crumble and the creation of exotic derivative instruments incite many on Main Street.

Policies 14

Policies Hedge Learning-by-Doing System 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

As a hedge fund manager who applied data-driven trading strategies once said, “You can spend endless time and resources only to find eventually a bug in your data.”. All too often analysts study historical data to develop a model that explains that data and then apply the model to the exact same data to make a prediction about the future.

Credit Scoring 10

Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

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

MARCH 11, 2011

The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. But businesses and professions that have been around for years tend to develop codes or ethics or at least norms of acceptable behavior. hedge funds? scam artists?

PR 10

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. In the late 1980s, we estimate it was ten years.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Developed during World War II, CARVER (then one letter shorter and known as CARVE) was originally used by analysts to determine where bomber pilots could most effectively drop their munitions on enemy targets. To consider another example, say a hedge fund is looking to acquire a tech company that claims to have a leading-edge technology.

Tools 12

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

There were no big technological changes — factories, steamships, and railroads were still largely in the future. That new mindset in turn did much to spur the speedy adoption of technologies in later decades. As historians have increasingly appreciated, technology is usually a secondary cause in economic development.

Class 8

Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

As The Economist recently observed : “More than 90 groups of scientists are now developing hypothesis-generation software. The ingenuity is compelling: instead of using data to solve problems, AH technologies generate portfolios of provocative problems to solve. Information & technology Innovation Technology'

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Hedge Information Technology 8