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Six Ways to See the World through New Lenses—and Lead More Effectively

Leading Blog

Senior managers at Allianz Global Investors, a global asset management company, attended a workshop called Dialogue in the Dark, led by visually impaired trainers who conducted the entire workshop in total darkness. What extreme step you can take to experience and lead yourself differently?

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How to Fix Financial Capitalism? Focus on Ethics

Harvard Business Review

These were among the questions addressed at a luncheon in New York convened by CFA Institute President John Rogers with financial industry leaders that included representatives from private and not-for-profit asset managers, public pension funds, insurance companies, and diversified financial services firms.

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

Harvard Business Review

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The business models of universities are being challenged, and it looks like the universities are out to lunch.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

The ongoing failure of policy at a global level (with the important exceptions of some successes/workarounds such as new mileage targets for cars and trucks and a carbon tax in Australia ). The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Right now, the U.S. Nuclear on the outs.

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Innovation Is as Much About Finding Partners as Building Products

Harvard Business Review

Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services. Scotiabank is also a leader in adopting this type of new model.

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Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies

Harvard Business Review

nonprofit organizations like the Heartland Capital Strategy Institute are bringing together institutional investors, private asset managers, and worker representatives to harness some of the $13 trillion of assets in workers’ pension funds to invest in worker-friendly businesses that offer good investment returns.

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