Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2011

Your attitude… develop an upbeat attitude. ’ He is the President of Human Asset Management LLC, a human resource consulting firm specializing in executive search and leadership training. He has trained hundreds of first-line supervisors, managers, and executives during his career. How well you communicate.

Company 71

Company Asset Management Human Resources Learning-by-Doing 71

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Our discussion got me thinking about how we often fail to have discussions about development goals with our kids… or our employees. ’ He is the President of Human Asset Management LLC, a human resource consulting firm specializing in executive search and leadership training.

Asset Management 50

Asset Management Career Goal Human Resources 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

If you are going to maximize your organization’s performance you have to make a conscious, binding top-down management decision and commitment to develop a no nonsense approach to retention. The following are several must-do actions items for retaining the high-value human assets you’ve worked so hard to acquire: Start at the top!

Learning-by-Doing 50

Learning-by-Doing Open-book Training Micromanagement 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Eccles, a mathematician by training and one of the foremost experts in corporate reporting, has for the past five years been working to create sustainability accounting standards for the investment community (he is also the chairman of ESG asset management firm Arabesque Partners). It’s been slow going.

Asset Management 8

Asset Management Report Information Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

They are not interested in hearing about the technological, regulatory, and societal developments that will determine the long-term, strategic positioning of this company.". Pension fund trustees, many of whom are ordinary lay people with limited investment experience, are often intimidated by asset managers," a U.K.

Long-term 12

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. Rather than aiming at all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , for example, companies will likely tailor their sustainability efforts to their commercial priorities.

Execution 12

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Recently, my colleagues at the Focus Consulting Group and I surveyed more than 100 asset management firms around the world, testing both for the strength of their cultures and for the effectiveness of their leadership teams. Over time, the team must develop trust by having clear rules of engagement and accountabilities.

Teamwork 13

Teamwork Industry Management Asset Management 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The goal is "to develop sustainable banking products which are more accessible for qualified candidates and women in general."

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

It has a “10-10-10” development approach, in which the goal is to build a rough cognitive application in 10 hours, customize it in 10 days, and go live within 10 weeks. Then it’s happy to supply consultants and even Ph.D. Some of Cognitive Scale’s customers, like M.D. Some Build, Some Buy. Go big with Watson.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. There are clear winners and losers in the battle to manage price perceptions in order to get this so-called “pricing credit” from consumers.

Price 14

Price Retail Discount Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Agua Via developed a nanotech membrane that enables desalination at a 66 percent energy reduction and 50 percent cost reduction, providing energy efficient purification and wastewater remediation. Water Resources Management Co. It's a space worth watching as these challenges are expected to become more pressing in the coming years.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

While minuscule amounts of program money are trickling out to small-scaled community-development institutions, billions of dollars are sitting in endowment funds. Tim Ferguson is the Founder, Chair, and Managing Partner of Next Street , a merchant bank for the urban enterprise. More than half of these companies are in low-income areas.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Or a healthcare data offering evaluating physicians’ perceptions on a new drug may be useful not only to brand managers at pharmaceutical companies, but also to portfolio managers at asset management firms seeking to find promising investment opportunities. For you, it may be different.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Mike joins StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities Advisory Services practice. “We His experience includes within the nuclear oversight, quality assurance, engineering, licensing, performance benchmarking and improvement, training, leadership development, and change management functions.

Power 50

Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago. It invests $3 million per year in consulting services that reduced drowning deaths and reported instances of child abuse by 85% and 65%, respectively, in less than 10 years.

Insurance 10

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 10