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4 Ways to Reinvest in Your Small Business to Drive Success

Strategy Driven

You can purchase software to help with everything from your accounting to employee management and acquisition. One integral but often overlooked program to invest in is a digital asset manager. Digital assets can quickly become disorganized if there isn’t a strict organizational method in place. Organization.

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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

Say-on-pay is part of a big shift in recent years toward giving professional money managers more tools to affect the governance of (and in some cases discipline the managers of) corporations. But it''s far from clear that professional money managers have what it takes to play the role of effective watchdog.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business Review

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. This will no doubt have profound effects on the workplace. Related Video. Measuring brand exposure.

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The Most Overlooked Part of Your Data Security

Harvard Business Review

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked. IT management Information & technology Risk management'

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

The Lyme Timber Company is a private timberland investment management organization that acquires and sustainably manages land with unique conservation value in the United States and Canada. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g., cash, fixed income, private equity, etc.)

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