Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Retention is going to be the most important factor in the survival of companies in the next 15 years. However, when performed together, your department, plant or organization will be transformed into a sophisticated retention machine that will be the envy of your fellow managers or competitors. What poor retention is costing you.

Asset Management 50

Asset Management Career Goal Human Resources 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

Retention is going to be the most important factor in the survival of companies in the next 15 years. However, when performed together, your department, plant or organization will be transformed into a sophisticated retention machine that will be the envy of your fellow managers or competitors. Manage Visibly!

Learning-by-Doing 50

Learning-by-Doing Open-book Training Micromanagement 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Eccles , a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School points out, that’s not because these issues don’t have financial consequences. Rather, it’s because there are no standards for how to measure and report on ESG issues, unlike a company’s financials. ” As Robert G.

Asset Management 8

Asset Management Report Information Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%. That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. What shareholders have been saying, in overwhelming numbers, is yes!

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurance is therefore a natural shared value industry — one that can employ the idea proposed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer of FSG in 2011. Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago. million people.

Insurance 10

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked. Today more than 550 US laws now affect IT asset disposition.

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Class Information Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The first whistleblower — using facts — is former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford , who uncovered a huge accounting fraud at the company. In 2011, Woodford was asked to lead the Japanese maker of optical equipment, first as president (in April) then as CEO (in September). They are awaiting sentencing.

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest CEO Asset Management Committee 8