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How to Use Accurate Data for Strategic Decision-Making

Strategy Driven

This simple strategy of using accurate data can help dictate the health of your business, both short and long-term. What Is Data-Driven Insights and Digital Asset Management? In simple terms, data-driven insights refer to any information a company uses to make strategic decisions. What kind of data?

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Skills Development Is Key If Firms Are To Make Best Use Of Alternative Data

The Horizons Tracker

Alternative data, such as social media activity or satellite imagery, has become a big deal in the trading world, with hedge funds and other asset managers striving to find new ways to gain a competitive edge over their rivals. This, in turn, boosts the performance of the funds.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Galetti is the highest-ranking woman at Amazon and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” (short for “Senior Team”) that reports directly to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. In her seven-plus years at Amazon, three as a division leader, she has quietly become one of its most influential figures. Affiliates.

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

Harvard Business Review

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 For CEOs, creating and communicating long-term growth strategy is easier said than done.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard. The investment management industry has been highly commoditized.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. 2 is this distinction between short-term vs. long-term predictability.

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