HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The White House wants CEOs to lead in the fight against the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus. While growing number of CEOs are in favor of requiring workers to be vaccinated, the rest are gauging if the time is right to change their vaccination policies in the workplace without standing out from the crowd.

Company 98

Company Offshoring Airlines Banking 98

Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

Moreover, attracting and retaining talent is “at the top of the agenda” for CEOs, according to the 2011 Annual Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics , the employment outlook by companies in the United States has soared to a 12-year high. .

Armstrong 108

Armstrong Storytelling White Paper Brand 108

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

CEOs get paid handsomely. The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. public companies.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Industry 8

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

The University provided me with an exceptional opportunity - to work in Hong Kong at a financial company in their asset management and private equity divisions. I’m a rising junior at Brown University with a passion for supporting entrepreneurs and understanding how businesses develop.

Entrepreneur 170

Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Library Mentor 170

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models.

Long-term 12

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In scores of conversations I've had with business leaders, pension fund trustees, asset managers, employer associations, and NGOs since I first issued this call in HBR , everyone has agreed with the goal. Here again, CEOs can and should manage that process actively. My final thought here is we need better metrics.

Long-term 8

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Prior to joining StrategyDriven, Nathan was a senior manager in Ernst & Young and Deloitte Consulting’s Power & Utility practices; advising industry leaders on the design and implementation of integrated fleet asset management programs.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. This collective flood of individual investment has turned asset management companies into ginormous shareholders. BlackRock alone manages about $4.7 trillion in assets.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

CEO Insider

JUNE 2, 2020

Jaggi and Iridius Capital invests in real estate across all major real estate asset classes and has acquired or developed $1.5B Jaggi, known as “Jaggi”, is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Iridius Capital, a real estate firm based in Tucson, Arizona. of real estate since 2011, giving their team a front-row […].

CIO 84

CIO Real Estate Licensing Magazine 84

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Examining the Cracks in the Ceiling: A Survey of Corporate Diversity Practices of the S&P 100 shows that out of the 100 CEOs represented in the survey, 92 were Caucasian males. We are very concerned about the fact that women and minorities continue to be under-represented at the highest levels of management,” said Barbara J.

Diversity 50

Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

No one has done more to spotlight the contrast than Laurence Fink, the CEO of BlackRock. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism. ” Many did.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

(Individual investors tend not to vote, and while brokerage firms used to vote the shares of customers who didn''t get around to voting themselves — almost invariably siding with management — the SEC stopped allowing that practice three years ago.). The idea was to get away from paying CEOs "like bureaucrats," as Michael C.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Recently, my colleagues at the Focus Consulting Group and I surveyed more than 100 asset management firms around the world, testing both for the strength of their cultures and for the effectiveness of their leadership teams. Teamwork is not the only key to success in the asset management industry.

Teamwork 13

Teamwork Industry Management Asset Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

Savings provide a major flow of capital to financial institutions, and enable consumers to purchase large assets, manage unexpected expenses, and prepare for retirement. We see two takeaways for CEOs, managers, and impact investors.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Asset Management Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

As a recent example, a simple background check would have saved the Yahoo board the trouble of ousting Scott Thompson , the company's fourth CEO in five years, because he falsely claimed a computer science degree. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. Manage Risk Like a Royal Marine. Set clear policies. What's Your Risk Attitude?

Management 13

Management Banking Committee Risk Management 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

A recent study of CEOs by Terrance Fitzsimmons of the University of Queensland found that male CEOs generally had full-time stay-at-home wives who could take primary responsibilities for the family and household, allowing the men to focus fully on their career. This subject has been on my mind for years. What’s relax?).

Travel 8

Travel Career CEO Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ghosn was recently arrested for financial misconduct, fired from his position as Nissan’s board chairman, and criticized by Nissan’s Japanese CEO for accumulating too much power. His discretion undermined the connection between company performance and CEO pay that investors want to see.

Committee 8

Committee Chief Financial Officer Document Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Few CEOs realize that their companies' "supplier diversity programs" might be self-defense exercises for an urbanized future. Tim Ferguson is the Founder, Chair, and Managing Partner of Next Street , a merchant bank for the urban enterprise. Institutions aren't stupid. They're not mean-spirited. They just tend to do what they know.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This week, CEOs and world leaders met at the UN to talk climate. The CEO leaders of the parade, like Richard Branson and Unilever’s Paul Polman, took the stage at The Climate Group’s climate week launch event in New York on Monday. At the same time, the cost of renewable energy has dropped very far, very fast.

IRR 8

IRR Energy Tips Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

AllianceBernstein (AB), a $3 billion asset management company based in Manhattan, rates each of its 3,700 employees every year on both performance and potential. Only the arrival of a new CEO led to a change in the policy — and an eventual uptick in the company’s talent base and performance. The result?

Human Capital 9

Human Capital How To Engineering Asset Management 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

CEOs live in fear of activist hedge funds, and politicians worry about their effects on workers. They seek to win management over by sharing well-researched analysis and connecting them to a network of potential partners. Pioneer funds of this approach include Asuka Value-up, Taiyo Pacific, and Simplex Asset Management.

ROE 8

ROE Construction Hedge Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Meanwhile, trustees control universities’ sometimes-giant endowments, and most often delegate this control to asset managers who treat the endowments as pools of money with the sole purpose of creating more money. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on. They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The market size for responsible investment is large and growing, with some of the largest asset managers like BlackRock , State Street Global Advisors , and Vanguard responding to demand by opening ESG-themed funds in recent years. How is it that sharp-toothed activists are becoming advocates of long-term sustainable investing?

Hedge 9

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. Take, for example, the CEO of a large U.S. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. Customer acquisition has been halted; you need to maximize value from existing customers.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

P&L 14

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I had been preparing a client presentation with several of my colleagues at our asset management firm. George, the CEO of a technology company with over 150 employees, believes that you need to be careful when confronting someone with intelligence gained from data mining.

EPM 8

EPM Root Cause Analysis Handbook Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For example, Dutch pension fund PGGM, with over 100 billion euros under management, decided a few years ago to focus one of its 3 billion euros of its equity portfolio on 15-20 stocks, engage with those investments as an active long-term owner — and stop tracking the indexes.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Each year, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, sends a much-anticipated letter to leading CEOs. Workers select a professional pension overseer, which could include government entities such as state pension funds or private sector pension managers. Phil Ashley/Getty Images.

Asset Management 10

Asset Management Crisis Cost Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. At the end of our conversation, he asked me what feedback I had for him about his organization.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The first whistleblower — using facts — is former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford , who uncovered a huge accounting fraud at the company. In 2011, Woodford was asked to lead the Japanese maker of optical equipment, first as president (in April) then as CEO (in September). He then went public.

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest CEO Asset Management Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

Educating senior management about the risks will hopefully secure IT asset managers the resources needed to prevent an ITAD-related breach. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk. IT management Information & technology Risk management' Make sure the way they obtain them doesn''t cost your company billions.

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Class Information Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore).

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

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. We are seeing early hints of the possibilities among automotive OEMs.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

HR Digest

MAY 23, 2023

James Morton, chief investment officer at Santa Lucia Asset Management, recently said that Americans should brace themselves for a near certain recession this year, despite recent optimism from the Biden administration. The grim economic rhetoric of recession has caused employee concerns about job risks and layoffs.

Marketing 52

Marketing Ryan Sharpe Asset Management 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Some parts of the agenda — eco-efficiency and resource conservation for example — are widely accepted now, and it's rare to find a big-company CEO who doesn't have sustainability on his or her radar. Corporate sustainability lost some of its sexiness from previous years, as it grew more entrenched in day-to-day business.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10