Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Public companies can have tens, hundreds, or even thousands of individual and institutional shareholders, like mutual fund companies, pension funds, or hedge funds. Now, these shareholders play a crucial role in the business’s financing, operations, governance, and control aspects. You may have the most innovative business idea.

Management 86

Management Hedge Finance Efficiency 86

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. A particularly fascinating and eye-opening chapter is on Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. More than ever, it truly is learn or die.

Open-book 284

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hedge Case Study 284

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

The researchers suggest that the desire for small firms to move could be because they have a smaller order book that doesn’t allow them to hedge their risk in the way larger firms can. Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters.

Supply Chain 91

Supply Chain Hedge Bureaucracy Credit Risk 91

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 McKinsey 15

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It can help them innovate. The HR Digest: Can you share with The HR Digest readers some innovative recruiting strategies that allow Mastercard to compete for talent in America and abroad?

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

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. Innovation in Cities. Social impact bonds could be one of the most innovative and effective. Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Compliance 13

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

This isn't a new challenge, but it's more urgent than ever, not just as an effort to escape reform and regulation from the outside, but to restore the public trust, to repair the moral fabric of the system, and to unleash the innovation required to tackle the world's most pressing and important challenges.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies? Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Those employees work at two of Britain’s most-admired retailers, John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, each of which has carved out a powerful bond with customers, both of which have unveiled big innovations in terms of branding, merchandising, and e-commerce.

Definition 8

Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast. They are supply-side architectural innovations. You want it separate but connected.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Innovation in structural systems. Innovation in mechanical and electrical systems.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

First, making significant amounts of your own power at zero variable cost is more than nice; it’s a hedge against volatility and smooths out expenses, which makes business planning easier. The problem then is not with the value creation, but with the tool of ROI and how we define it. In this way, Tim Cook is onto something important.

CEO 8

CEO ROI Environment Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

It’s common sense, but it bears repeating, given how many companies don’t operate that way. When Paul Polman became the CEO of Unilever, for example, he stopped giving analysts earnings guidance, dispensed with quarterly profit reports, and said there’d be no special treatment for hedge funds.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

When it comes to planning, multinationals shouldn’t apply quick fixes to mitigate short-term operational risks (for instance, financial hedging to manage exchange rate fluctuations, or cursory assessment of distributors to evaluate their supply chains). And this is happening before Brexit has even taken place.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When they’re punished, you instill a fear of risk-taking in your employees, and with that you stifle creativity and innovation.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

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. To mainstream economists the Glass-Steagall Act that separated the banking and securities industries looked like a competition-restricting, innovation-damping anachronism.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple. How then can a new front-runner better manage market expectations and also strive to be more innovative?

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When they’re punished, you instill a fear of risk-taking in your employees, and with that you stifle creativity and innovation.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. These distinct approaches enjoy demonstrable real-world success.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Many innovative customer-service solutions like these are simple and inexpensive, and they have high payback. A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Leaders need to draw up a list of all the bad things that can happen, build cash reserves, hedge, and acquire options, to prepare for the worst. In our HBR article on collaborative leadership , Herminia Ibarra and I argue that leaders need to instill the growth mindset and learning goals in their company to spur innovation.

Hedge 16

Hedge Collins Open-book Teamwork 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. This problem of extending the automatic reasoning of AI systems to understand the context of their decisions is highly complex, and creative innovation, like the one at Google, is usually needed to push the effort forward.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Less innovation in markets dominated by data-opolies. Significant costs on third parties.

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

It is far more likely that the hard work of restructuring will be the task of private equity firms, leveraged buyout firms or hedge funds, all of whom have a financial motivation to make whatever disengagement decisions are necessary to profit from the eventual re-sale of a healthier company. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Restructuring Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. 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

MARCH 8, 2016

And the choice to hold on to cash or use it to repurchase shares, rather than invest profits in new opportunities for innovation and expansion, has had real consequences for our economy that have contributed to the current political upheaval. -based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. These “bitcoin whales” are currently the ones who make or break many of the ICOs.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8