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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. Sean Woodroffe, CHRO at TIAA : With more than 1 Trillion in assets under management and more than 17,000 employees, Woodroffe is transforming an old-line asset manager into a culture of next generation talent.

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How Accounting Can Help Build a Sustainable Economy

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Carlos Ghosn, Nissan, and the Need for Stronger Corporate Governance in Japan

Harvard Business Review

In 2015, Japan reformed its corporate governance code to require boards to have at least two independent directors. In 2015, Nissan had one outside director, but he was a former Renault executive and not really independent because of the Nissan-Renault alliance.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants. An influx of that scale would dwarf the approximately $78 billion invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2015.

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Software Asset Management: A New Defense Against Cybersecurity Threats - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

By 2021, worldwide cybercrime damage is expected to reach $6 trillion— double what it cost businesses in 2015∗ Of course, companies cannot protect what they cannot manage. And that’s where software asset management can help. And that’s where software asset management can help.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

Think of customer reps who support the biggest investors at asset management companies like Fidelity and Putnam. from 2005 to 2015 came from freelance work. They may be salespeople whose customers need lots of handholding — think life insurance, for instance, or industrial machinery.

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Mike Purcell Joins StrategyDriven Power & Utilities Advisory Services Practice

Strategy Driven

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