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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

The correct choice of your small business structure is going to influence all your daily operations, taxes, filing, personal liability, and asset management,Henceforth, choose it wisely so that you can obtain the right balance of your legal protections and advantages. Cooperatives. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely.

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Research: Index Funds Are Fueling Out-of-Whack CEO Pay Packages

Harvard Business Review

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. In other words, these managers are rewarded less for outperforming their competitors.

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One Big Reason There’s So Little Competition Among U.S. Banks

Harvard Business Review

Then Morgan forced those competitors to cooperate. Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. This collective flood of individual investment has turned asset management companies into ginormous shareholders. trillion in assets.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In Morgan’s Cooper explains it this way: “Many companies are waking up to the incredible amount of untapped talent that has left Wall Street firms.” And last week J.P.

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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

In January, Oxfam announced it would team with the asset manager Symbiotics to launch the Small Enterprise Impact Investment Fund (SEIFF), based in Luxembourg. Even non-governmental organizations, hardly usual allies for the private sector, are joining the wave of support for small business.

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When He Retires and She Still Works, What Happens?

Harvard Business Review

As Julie, a high profile investment manager, told me, “instead of wives who raised children and managed the home waiting for their spouses to finally retire so they can travel around the world together, there are now a slew of husbands waiting for their wives to retire.”. This subject has been on my mind for years.

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Free Yourself from Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business Review

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. However, management was not convinced. Still, management remained unconvinced, believing that workers must be directed, tightly managed, and never allowed to set their own pace. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%.