Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Freedom Financial provides five key areas of finance that are critical for entrepreneurs to have a greater chance at success. Keep business and personal finances separate. Once your business starts growing, Freedom Financial recommends separating business and personal finances, is essential. Proper preparation for lean months.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The name of hedge fund billionaire Raymond Dalio triggers emotions of adoration, admiration, and even dislike. billion, Dalio started investing at the age of 12 and his life has revolved around finance. That’s the effect success has on people. You do not climb your way up without meeting people who have mixed feelings about you.

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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.

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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.

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Hedge Ethics Incentives Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > The same applies to trade finance and financial assets, where companies such as Digital Asset Holdings (run by JPMorgan veteran Blythe Masters ), Blockstream, and Chain are trying to revolutionize how assets are issued and traded.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This is something where a lot of small businesses fall into murky waters because they either don’t invest the time or finances into their imagery. It is tempting to go for every avenue so you can hedge your bets, but it is the corporate equivalent of spreading yourself thin.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

But although the market as a whole displays a variety of biases in processing financial news, not all finance professionals consume news in the same way. In “News Consumption: From Information to Returns,” I compare the news consumption patterns of different finance professionals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. Uber apparently lacked oversight about sexual harassment behavior; it seems far less likely that such oversight would be lacking when it comes to finance.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The increasing inequality between companies is sharpest in finance, insurance, and real estate, followed by communications. So rising inequality is less about every CEO getting paid more than it is about the top finance executives leaving their peers in the dust. And it is most pronounced for the highest paid workers. Making the top 0.1%

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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 close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So when people believe that they have a strong understanding of a subject — say, finance — they tend to overclaim more, asserting that they know concepts that researchers present to them, even when the concepts are made up. I recently encountered an illustrative case of overclaiming that could translate easily across industries.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

According to Mills’ research, “most [peer-to-peer lenders] are large institutional investors such as hedge funds and investment banks.” Finance Small/medium business Technology' But the “peer-to-peer” moniker is misleading – this isn’t crowdfunding. ” That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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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.

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Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

Hedge against the downside. Understanding the potential risks enables you to do a much better job hedging against them. If you’re planning to launch a startup, for instance, your colleagues might have highlighted concerns about your finance skills. How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control. Mark Bonchek.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Update: Politico's Ben White did have a brief testimonial from hedge fund manager and Goldman client Whitney Tilson this morning.) Then the combination of bigger paychecks and higher college and grad school tuition began driving the best students into finance. Do you think our guys could have invented, say, credit default swaps?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable.

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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?)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

million in one year from the hedge fund D.E. This gap between what employees of Goldman and its Wall Street peers (including hedge funds, private equity firms, etc.) The increasing rewards to work in finance were for a long time defended as evidence that the financial sector was creating more value than the rest of the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

I think he got the Nobel nod (instead of somebody like Andy Lo , or Mordechai Kurz , or Roman Frydman ) because he was (1) very early to the game, (2) a macroeconomist (the Nobel people generally seem more comfortable with macro than with finance), and (3) most suited to being shoehorned into a narrative of steady scientific progress.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Our data shows, for instance, that 18% of multimillionaires work in finance, while only 1% of them are professors and scientists.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A friend of mine, for example, was speaking recently with an older hedge fund manager who began a story with the following: "Since we all know that there are 4 billion people on the planet." This finance expert is dead wrong — in fact, he's billions of people off (we're now over seven billion). This is a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

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. How did Sal Khan finance his venture? First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit.

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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'

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Cost Hedge Fraser Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. His response: “While I think using 13Fs to track hedge fund stock-pickers works great, in my mind it works less so for the activist guys.” Apple Finance Skill vs. luck'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Sheelah Kolhatkar, in a cover story (and what a classy cover it is) in the new Bloomberg Businessweek , argues that the great alternative to plain-vanilla equity and debt investing — the hedge fund — is more or less over, too. Compensation Economy Finance'

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Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. ” Many of them are in China, but there are also hedge funds and bitcoin investment funds who hold massive amounts of bitcoin. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and many other regulatory bodies are still investigating them.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. It printed money while its financial models, based on cutting-edge option theory, worked, with annualized returns after fees of over 40% in its second and third years. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Without theory to tell us how the rules are changing, many tools of management and finance seem to break down. Disruptive innovation Finance' But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory?

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' But I’m not sure what’s really gained by calling such events “bubbles.”. Not that it’s really up to me, of course.

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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.

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Bond Long-term Short-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Unlike a pure holding company or a modern hedge fund, the GE model intended to create value by actively sharing capabilities among its disparate businesses, which, with one important exception, were all rooted in manufacturing. But the GE model is dead — and there’s a long list of possible suspects.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Firms are realizing what microfinance has known for a while: Local self-policing groups, or village headmen who police honor codes, can hedge cash flows in far-flung places. Toyota and Yamaha have found motorbike customers through such social group structures.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. For example, Pepsi’s transformation from a purveyor of sugary drinks toward healthy snacks would have been hindered had hedge funds succeeded in their demands.

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