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Dealing with Change as Your Company Grows

Strategy Driven

Perhaps the technology team want to spend more time developing an upgrade to your product, but the finance team insist the money is better spent elsewhere.

Company 50
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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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How Employers in Poor Countries Are Using Nudges to Help Employees Save Money

Harvard Business Review

According to World Bank figures , half of adults in high-income OECD countries save in a formal account; in developing economies, it’s only one in five. In a recent paper , we found that nudging employees to save worked in Afghanistan, one of the world’s least financially developed countries.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

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
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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

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

Harvard Business Review

Third, as a result of strong performances by worker- and employee-owned companies, it is becoming easier for workers to overcome arguably the biggest hurdle to worker buyouts: financing. And companion bills developed to enable the U.S. The co-op gives lobstermen a way to participate in the wholesale market and to share in the profits.

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