Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

At Cascade Asset Management , an environmentally minded recycler of computer components, sustainability reigns supreme, from a wholly green headquarters to employee nameplates personally made from recycled computer pieces. So, you see, corporate culture can be, and is, quite concrete. Barbara T.

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Armstrong Storytelling White Paper Brand 108

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Although our short answer was "no," we believe that managing water will become a critical business skill for the 21st century. Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. We spoke with Colin Sabol, a Vice President at ITT, about the survey and ITT's goals.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

Sit down with the other managers in your organization and identify the problems that are faced by people in your workforce. Develop innovative ideas and deploy specific new plans to provide employees with more flexibility in their work, support for their common needs, and help for dealing with personal issues that impact their life.

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Learning-by-Doing Open-book Training Micromanagement 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Nowadays, the same handful of large, diversified asset management companies controls a significant proportion of US corporations. Magnifying their already large individual power, large asset managers also appear to coordinate many corporate governance activities, including those regarding compensation. public companies.

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CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. Having any more than that risks diluting executive focus. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

Yet new breeds of solutions are emerging, with private and public players joining hands to find innovative answers. Standing before a brown swathe of land cut up into rectangular ditches for a World Bank-funded project just outside Liberia's capital city of Monrovia, George Howard is a beneficiary of one such innovation.

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Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. Alter Your Point-of-View.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Apple’s Tim Cook spoke as well, saying “the time for inaction has passed,” and commenting that we don’t need to accept any “tradeoff between economy and environment — both are doable if you innovate and set the bar high enough.”. and an IRR of 27% for those companies with the most aggressive, science-based goals and actions on climate.

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IRR Energy Tips Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". This is the way both to achieve higher returns and make the market more efficient.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore). trillion market for clothes and shoes.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. The retail giant's powerful buyers, or merchants, now have a sustainability goal in their performance targets and reviews.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10