Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

While big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things garner the lion’s share of media attention, using data to its full potential is much more about management than it is about technology. In working with companies on getting more from their data, I advise managers to explore seven methods to put data to work.

Company 12

Company Insurance Content Policies 12

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

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 13

Gordon Hedge Public Relations Document 13

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. And what happened to the compensation of the typical JP Morgan managing director? Each managing director was financially interdependent with every other.

Banking 10

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 10

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 9

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 9

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Basic documents to verify. HR managers need to address the question of qualification a little deeper. Ask these questions too, especially if the position is mid manager and higher level: Does the applicant have all the necessary licensing or certification qualifications required? Why did the applicant leave the previous job?

Pre-Employment Screening 105

Pre-Employment Screening Guidelines How To Reference 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

The executive implications for time management and, more important, people management are enormous. The awkward irony is that this radically increased access gives top management less choice — not more — about how it invests its limited attention. The chairman had artfully hedged and qualified his innovation clichés.

Due Diligence 11

Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 11

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 9

Kahneman Tversky Hedge Banking 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). Crisis management Information & technology Technology'

McGregor 8

McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO 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 limitation of speculation was exactly Mahathir's point.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

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. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' It didn’t change Fama’s mind. from 1941 through 1990. But it’s not necessarily an incorrect one.

CAPM 9

CAPM Finance Price Uncertainty 9

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

Besides the short-term costs of such a move, history shows us that Greece has never managed to benefit from currency devaluations. 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. In a country slipping from 1.8% growth in late 2014 to a 2.5%

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 10

Price Hedge Influence Finance 10

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 18

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 18

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. Is it Apple's consumer appeal, or the declining influence of corporate IT managers? Identifying a clear destination Big companies often hate to make choices.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

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 16

Career CEO Hedge Agility 16