Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Carl had a Ph.D.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

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 12

Long-term Hedge Strategy Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The global economy and the Internet have heightened our sense of interconnectedness and sharpened our awareness that when a business focuses only on enriching investors, it implies that managers view the interests of customers, employees, communities and the fate of the planet as little more than cost trade-offs in a quarter-by-quarter game.

Short-term 17

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Compliance 16

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 16

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

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 13

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 13

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 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

MARCH 11, 2014

To borrow a term from Wharton management professor Michael Useem, Owens is most definitely a member of the global elite’s “ inner circle.”. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar. Back in February 2009, Owens’s ties were severely tested.

Ethics 10

Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 10

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

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

McKinsey 16

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 16

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. For you older folk, pay attention to hair that appears in strange places (nose/ears/face/hands) — I get more scared as I get older and see my hair migrate from my head to the Twilight Zones of my face. Also, good dental hygiene is important too. Unported License.

Succession 223

Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 223

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Convincing employees to go above and beyond the call of duty may be the epitome of personnel management. To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship. How talent management is changing. Of course, that’s easier said than done.

Licensing 8

Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 9

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 9

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. Great insights Susan.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Organizational refers to the systems these leaders create to manage leadership throughout the organization and the application of organization systems to specific business conditions. intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and ethical behaviors)? Executor: To what extent do leaders make things happen and deliver as promised?

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

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

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

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. HR managers need to address the question of qualification a little deeper. Negligent hire claims are a serious risk and a thorough background check helps you hedge that risk. (A Here are a few pointers—.

Pre-Employment Screening 105

Pre-Employment Screening Guidelines How To Reference 105

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

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

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

JANUARY 17, 2012

the management consultancy. Such plans frequently include giving managers financial incentives to do what they should have done before — concentrating on the most promising lines, selling off dud businesses, and "leaning down" operations, often including headcount. Vulture capitalism ," as Governor Perry has suggested?

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 14