Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2020

After all, with so many happy customers under your belt, there’s no reason to deprive potential new clients of your skillfully manicured lawns and pristinely trimmed hedges. It’s specifically designed to streamline business operations and improve productivity, whether it’s in servicing current clients or even marketing to new ones.

Quality 75

Quality Software Efficiency Hedge 75

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Embrace intuition and alignment, ignore anything that does not enable the achievement of your vision – Your strategic planning must provide a path to full alignment of business operations and the furthering of vision achievement. Anything else amounts to little more than chasing the “next shiny object.”

Strategy 150

Strategy Strategic Planning Span of Control Hedge 150

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners , a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to Apple’s board of directors that may change the future of activist investing. Tim Ellis/Getty Images. But it is reportedly not alone.

Hedge 9

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. 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.

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.” They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. We’re always looking for ways we can be a positive influence in the markets where we operate.

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

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.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

It is generally accepted that efficiency represents the optimal, aspirational state for any market. Efficient markets, which feature many buyers and sellers and perfect information flowing between them, determine the “right price” and hence allocate society’s resources optimally. Think about how markets evolve.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Marketing Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Beginning with Criticality, they might ask, “How critical is the oil pipeline in Abuja, Nigeria, to the company’s overall operations?” The CSO would rank Criticality like this: 5 – Loss of the pipeline would stop operations. 4 – Loss would reduce operations considerably. 3 – Moderate impact.

Tools 12

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

If inventory levels are predictive of sales and earnings surprises, could one invest based on inventory turns and beat the returns one gets in the market? Based on these results, the three designed an investment strategy that handily outperforms the market even after controlling for factors like risk and size of firm. Retailers beware!

Retail 15

Retail Marketing Benchmarking Fixed Assets 15

HR Digest

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This court approval of sale to its lender shall clear Tupperware to exit bankruptcy with most of its operations intact. Under terms of the deal, a group of lenders is buying Tupperware’s brand name and various operating assets for $23.5 The sale includes Tupperware’s brand name and its assets in core markets including the U.S.,

Hedge 52

Hedge Brand Discount Globalization 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Or at least the market''s. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. It also doesn''t follow from Bebchuk, Brav, and Jiang''s evidence that more hedge fund activism would necessarily be a good thing. I''m not joining in.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. Active investors such as hedge funds seek to outperform the market and index providers.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. This group should represent a variety functions within the organization exposed to Brexit: supply chain, channel managers, procurement, marketing, sales, public affairs, governance, and financial controlling, among others. How to Plan for Brexit.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

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 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

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.

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies are both operators and investors. And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry?

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees. There are no public shareholders clamoring for higher dividends, no hedge funds gorging on management fees. to $15 per hour.

Definition 8

Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Clean energy can provide a hedge against rising and more volatile electricity prices. In a recent, high-profile example, HP announced in July that it will power all of its Texas data centers with wind energy for 12 years while lowering its operating costs. There’s never been more choice for renewable electricity.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

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. Financial markets are like that, Soros goes on. From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. Why did M&T make such out-of-character investments?

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The book’s title and subtitle capture the spirit of this kind of workplace, where human scale matters more than massive revenue and big market share. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank.

Health Care 15

Health Care How To Hedge Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. 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. Brand confidently.

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

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. He noted his agency’s “particular concerns in digital markets.” In the U.S.,

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Institutional banking businesses — including trading operations — typically don't have high barriers to entry. financial institution has pulled back or failed, there has almost always been a European bank or a Japanese bank or some other player willing to take over its trading operations or enter the market in its place.

Banking 10

Banking Hedge Constraint Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Its primary social metric is the number of lives reached in base-of-pyramid markets. Robin Hood, on the other hand, is a grant-making foundation created by hedge fund managers with a penchant for hard numbers. The MCC's approach is even more complex as it operates on a 20-year time horizon.

Long-term 8

Long-term Due Diligence Metrics Cost-Benefit Analysis 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

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars. This lack of comfort with both the quantitative aspects of risk and the more sophisticated options available to operational executives is (in some industries literally) dangerous.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 9

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance. So we are left with a quandary.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Restructuring Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. The company could merge with Dell.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

So why do companies spend millions on big data and big-data-based market research while continuing to ignore the simple things that make customers happy? Big data is today's panacea, the great new hope for unlocking the mysteries of marketing. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? We all have. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM’s model continued to predict that it was properly hedged against a potential Russian default; the insight that it actually needed — that it was under-hedged and exposed to liquidity risk — could only have come from outside of the model. Nevertheless, overreliance on models was its downfall.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance. Consider this figure: $136 billion per year. This figure should surprise no one with an interest in big data.

Cost 8

Cost Hedge Quality Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

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. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8