Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

And sophisticated hedge funds that employ armies of programmers to come up with anything that can give them an edge would have a field day searching for signs of strength or weakness or for any talk of upcoming deals. But competitors would surely invest much more effort.

Gordon 14

Gordon Hedge Public Relations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

In both their personal and professional lives, individuals spend hours each week looking for documents, reports, and other data. Hedge funds and used car dealers use such data to create and leverage asymmetries. Find ways to connect these individuals with others who can provide the answers they’re looking for.

Company 11

Company Insurance Content Policies 11

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Hedge 312

Hedge Class Video Career 312

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

Bond 8

Bond Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We should be building something enchanting, like Harry Potter's Marauder's Map , the mystical document that showed Harry and his friends exactly what was going on at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in real-time — including every corner of the castle (even secret corridors), as well as where any given person was located in real-time.

Directory 15

Directory Hedge Content Hotels 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

While noting that this doesn’t seem to be the case with respect to the public — both the computer and internet industries poll favorably — she documents at length the rise of “tech hate” among journalists and other commentators, including HBR contributor Umair Haque: “Tech is something like the new Wall St.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Basic documents to verify. Negligent hire claims are a serious risk and a thorough background check helps you hedge that risk. (A The average turnaround time for most background checks is between 3-5 business days, depending on the depth of the search, the geographical location of your candidates, or even the availability of records.

Pre-Employment Screening 105

Pre-Employment Screening Guidelines How To Reference 105

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

MAY 26, 2011

The chairman had artfully hedged and qualified his innovation clichés. My jaw dropped even as my eyes glazed over. Bernanke's remarks — in context — were blandly reasonable mush. No real surprise; no real provocation. He used a lot of words to say remarkably little.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

While the phenomenon of loss aversion has been well-documented, it''s worth noting that Kahneman himself refers to "most people" — not all — when describing its prevalence. Incidentally, Iksil was head of the Chief Investment Office, the purpose of which is to protect the bank by hedging some of its other riskier bets.

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Tversky Hedge Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

One of the changes I document in the book is how Goldman drifted from a focus on ethical standards of behavior to legal ones — from what one “should” do to what one “can” do. The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013).

Banking 9

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Herbalife After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power The New York Times If you’re looking for the corporate-governance version of House of Cards, this is probably the closest you''ll get (though there''s no strategic murdering here, as far as I know). So don''t do that: Music is best when you''re doing repetitive tasks.

McGregor 8

McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In brief, the Seven No’s that cannot be discussed or promoted, and in the order presented in the now famous Document No. In one area, however, deep uncertainties exist which must cause even the most pro-China investors to want to hedge their bets. Universal values, such as human rights.

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We should be building something enchanting, like Harry Potter's Marauder's Map , the mystical document that showed Harry and his friends exactly what was going on at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in real-time — including every corner of the castle (even secret corridors), as well as where any given person was located in real-time.

Directory 8

Directory Hedge Content Hotels 8

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. 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 12

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 12

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. It didn’t change Fama’s mind. He still contends that those who speak of market “bubbles” are being intellectually sloppy.

CAPM 8

CAPM Finance Price Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

In a famous example (at least, it’s famous if you’re into this kind of thing), in March 1951, the CIA’s Office of National Estimates published a document suggesting that a Soviet attack on Yugoslavia within the year was a “serious possibility.” Lesson 2: Use structured approaches to set probabilities.

Survey 8

Survey Hedge Analysis Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

In his first four months in office, he put his signature to 403 documents, 245 of which were approvals for travel for himself and his appointees. What happened was that the EU and taxpayers got dodgy Greek debt to help EU (but non-Greek) banks and hedge funds, which duly made a killing. In a country slipping from 1.8%

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

A sizable literature documents the role that distraction plays: When faced with multiple competing cues, people have difficulty focusing their attention on the relevant information. Broker dealers and hedge funds are much quicker, on average, to click on any given piece of news than banks or large investment management companies.

Price 9

Price Hedge Influence Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The horrible irony: The very detail-oriented systems (and people) Dimon had put in place had obscured rather than surfaced his bank's horrible hedge. He wasn't technically sophisticated enough to read the code or analyze the testing, but he asked several project managers to share how their code was being documented.

Micromanagement 17

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Create a one-page document that contains the company’s operating values, vision, and mission. 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. Use it on a daily basis!

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

If executives don't have a detailed view of what choices the strategic plan will inform, the document may not provide clear guidance when those calls need to get made. These moves require limited investment while providing critical hedges against unexpected changes in the marketplace.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I'm not sure why I'm asked so often for career advice — guess it could be my job title (chief talent officer), or the well-documented ebbs and flows of my own journey. The only hedge is continual reinvention. I have a mental note-to-self that I keep in ready-access memory. What does your note-to-self say?

Career 15

Career CEO Hedge Agility 15