Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

s long-running effort, Khuzami has focused, particularly, on the hedge fund industry, which for reasons related to its competitiveness, capital and connections, he sees as especially prone to insider trading. Strengthening the S.E.C.’s Perhaps more important, the bread-and-butter civil actions brought by the S.E.C.

Marketing 95

Marketing Hedge Tips Magazine 95

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Hedge funds are playing the role of Wall Street villain again. Then came the November 22, 2010 raids of three hedge fund headquarters by FBI agents who seized documents and confiscated BlackBerries. Now authorities are serving subpoenas on other, larger hedge and mutual funds. This time, the charge is rampant insider trading.

Hedge 16

Hedge Ethics Incentives Environment 16

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

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This narrow focus on raising stock price by any means possible keeps companies from making long-term investments, protecting the interests of essential stakeholders like employees or customers, or taking much account of social welfare and ethical considerations in making business decisions. This powerful minority is activist hedge funds.

Long-term 13

Long-term Hedge Strategy Short-term 13

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Capitalism degenerates into narrow self-interest without a strong ethical foundation. How do we measure the ethical or moral climate of a company, and what is the dashboard? What kind of a forum or process could we create that would allow individuals to freely share and discuss ethical dilemmas?

Short-term 17

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 17

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Trustworthiness is the most noble and powerful of all the attributes of leadership.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

And it's become more ethical, even as profits have risen, with Cook donating company money to charitable causes for the first time, instituting fair labor checks at the FoxConn plant in China, and issuing a public apology to disappointed Apple Maps customers.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Hedge Ethics 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making. You and Your Team Series.

Ethics 8

Ethics Training Morale Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance. No board would allow a finance function to focus exclusively on investor reporting or risk hedging, but this type of mistake is all too common when it comes to HR.

Compliance 16

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? And in 2004 Paolo Pellegrini, a VP at the investment bank Lazard Freres, was fired — then took on a low-level position at a hedge fund after a lucky phone call. Yahoo declined (as did others). Lucky thing, that.

Succession 21

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 21

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. This kind of interdependence has the potential to move the focus back to ethical standards of behavior instead of just legal ones. Compensation Ethics Finance'

Banking 13

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2011

Is there any head of a hedge fund who has stood up publicly, the way Warren Buffett now has, and said, "It's absurd that I should be paying lower taxes than someone who earns $30,000 a year"? We reward and admire the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

Hedge 19

Hedge Social Capital Class Mentor 19

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. Ethics Finance Government' have centered on. Bharara has not filed charges (yet?)

Hedge 10

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 10

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 Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

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? Without such rules and bounds, in fact, capitalism doesn't seem to work very well. scam artists? The answer: a mix of all five.

PR 11

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

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. Ethics Finance Global business'

Cost 9

Cost Hedge Fraser Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar. As Max Weber might have put it , the President was motivated by an ethic of conviction , doing everything possible to achieve his end goal, which was getting the bill passed.

Ethics 10

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Further research conducted by Harvard''s Francesca Gino and Joshua Margolis, indicates that prevention-focused people are more likely than the promotion-focused to behave ethically and honestly — not because they are more ethical per se, but because they fear that rule-breaking will land them in hot water.

Kahneman 11

Kahneman Tversky Hedge Banking 11

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. Ethics Finance Government' Maybe there were some incriminating details behind the Goldman executive’s statement that alarmed Segarra and were left out of the story, but on the face of it there’s nothing to see here.

Banking 12

Banking Conflict of Interest Hedge Policies 12

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 17

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

At least seven hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion just in 2009. The widening gap between the haves and the have-nots in today's world is breathtaking. Some 400 people on the Forbes list of richest Americans have a net worth in excess of $1 billion.

Hedge 17

Hedge Cost Energy Goal 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S Was it only ten years ago that the profits of the top 10 U.S. pharma companies equaled the total for the other 490 in the Fortune 500? corporate profits was heading toward something north of 40%.

McKinsey 16

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

While the rest of the stock market world was still operating in terms of minutes and seconds, the HFTers (led by two Chicago-based firms, hedge-fund giant Citadel and upstart GETCO, now called KCG ) found a whole new world of profit in the milliseconds and microseconds between when orders were placed and filled. Ethics Finance Technology'

Long-term 9

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

These contradictory tendencies motivate traditionally “green” and ethical businesses to unite and stake a claim to their authentic difference, fueling the growth of B corporations and other new types of organizations.

Company 8

Company Hedge Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. But can pushing too hard to create “good soldiers” lead to unintended consequences?

Licensing 8

Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and ethical behaviors)? Equity investors (venture capitalists, private equity, portfolio managers, mutual/hedge fund managers) will use this index to complement existing financial and intangible analysis and gain a more thorough and rigorous understanding of firm’s full market value.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation. Robo-advisors have the potential to deliver a broader array of advice and there may be a range of specialized tools in particular decision domains.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

One has to be aware of the likely pitfalls, including being compliant with the equal opportunity acts and ethical standards. Negligent hire claims are a serious risk and a thorough background check helps you hedge that risk. (A But beware, the world of background checks is a complicated one to say the least. Here are a few pointers—.

Pre-Employment Screening 105

Pre-Employment Screening Guidelines How To Reference 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

This is a neighborhood shared with hedge-fund managers and investment bankers, not the types most of us think of as "running a business," Romney's self-described leading credential for higher office. They don't appear to be in it for the long haul.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 14