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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 ” Backing this up is another group of asset managers who have committed $2 billion to invest in a newly created S&P Long-Term Value Index , a subset of companies doing things right. Similarly, Corning Inc. Don’t worry about scaring people off.

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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. Malkiel argues that most of the gigantic growth in asset-management-industry profits since 1980 "is likely to represent a deadweight loss for investors." Since say-on-pay hit the U.S.

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Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

Abe has even met with one of the most prominent American activists, Dan Loeb , in a private albeit well-publicized encounter, suggesting he sees value in foreign involvement in Japanese markets. They seek to win management over by sharing well-researched analysis and connecting them to a network of potential partners.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout. By March 2012 unemployment was 24.1 percent and youth unemployment reached 29 percent in early 2012. The accent heard today in Madrid has a distinct Irish lilt to it.

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.".

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Right now, the U.S.

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Innovation Is as Much About Finding Partners as Building Products

Harvard Business Review

DNA genetic testing company 23andMe fell behind on its communications with the FDA, resulting in a temporary ban on marketing the company’s personal genetic screening services to the public. The inadequacies of the old approach are evident in recent startup stumbles, even when the technology is sound.