Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

I’m a rising junior at Brown University with a passion for supporting entrepreneurs and understanding how businesses develop. 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.

Entrepreneur 170

Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Library Mentor 170

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Jeff Kortes is the President of Human Asset Management LLC, a human resources consulting firm which specializes in executive search, retention, engagement and front line leadership training. Slug Proof Your Team… No Nonsense Strategies to develop a High Performance Organization.

Human Resources 50

Human Resources Asset Management Newsletter Construction 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Making the right investments in learning and development programs has never been more important – or more of a challenge – for business leaders. billion dollars on learning and development programs, many executives still grapple with how to improve and enhance their effectiveness. Provide flexible learning options.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2011

You will learn: How to avoid the dreaded meeting where you have to say, “We are letting you go because you just aren’t a good fit.”. Why good employees leave your organization, and how to stop it. How to build a comprehensive strategy (or game plan) for your department, facility or entire organization that improves retention.

Company 71

Company Asset Management Human Resources Learning-by-Doing 71

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

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.

Ethics 12

Ethics Rogers Asset Management Finance 12

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

You will learn: How to avoid the dreaded meeting where you have to say, “We are letting you go because you just aren’t a good fit.” Why good employees leave your organization, and how to stop it. How to build a comprehensive strategy (or game plan) for your department, facility or entire organization that improves retention.

Asset Management 50

Asset Management Career Goal Human Resources 50

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. One other tip: involve as many line managers in the interviews you can. Many jobs these days are highly technical, from software development to running a copper mine.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital How To Engineering Asset Management 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

You will learn: How to avoid the dreaded meeting where you have to say, “We are letting you go because you just aren’t a good fit.”. Why good employees leave your organization, and how to stop it. How to build a comprehensive strategy (or game plan) for your department, facility or entire organization that improves retention.

Learning-by-Doing 50

Learning-by-Doing Open-book Training Micromanagement 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Rather, it’s because there are no standards for how to measure and report on ESG issues, unlike a company’s financials. Long-term asset owners, such as pension funds, are increasingly putting pressure on their asset managers to look beyond the traditional financial information in developing their investment strategies.

Asset Management 8

Asset Management Report Information Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

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. But we now have some evidence about how to scale nudges to help change this. We see two takeaways for CEOs, managers, and impact investors.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Asset Management Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The truth is that the worlds of activism and impact investing are converging much more swiftly than most people realize — and this union holds enormous promise for those who wish to see the creation of capital markets that support sustainable economic development. A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

Hedge 9

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

This erosion in the role of the manager has not gone unnoticed. As part of a recent research project into how top executives view training and development programs, executives overwhelmingly said the most urgent problem they face is igniting their managers to coach employees. Tap into the potential coach within everyone.

Management 8

Management Mentor Content Training 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s not uncommon to meet a lawyer who’d like to work in renewable energy, or an app developer who’d like to write a novel, or an editor who fantasizes about becoming a landscape designer. Here’s how. Subsidize Your Skill Development. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition.

Career 8

Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Many universities will figure out how to thrive under a new world order, but there are not-so-quiet alarm bells that suggest many will not. Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Many of them are new to this set of technologies, and seeing the topic through my students’ eyes has made me realize how overwhelming it can be. There are so many different types of AI, each requiring some technical knowledge to fully grasp, that newcomers to the field often have difficulty figuring out how to jump in.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. I was happy to hear him respond that he wanted to do exactly that — and I wasn’t surprised to hear him say that he didn’t know how to begin. This is not about venting or getting something off our chest.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. But it is a very basic rewrite of how to think about finance, and it has swept all before it in the academic world.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Based on similar numbers, both McKinsey and PwC UK calculated how fast we must reduce the carbon intensity of the global economy ( PwC's number is 5% per year until 2050 ). In his November newsletter , he demonstrated exactly how much of a drag on the U.S. economy commodity prices have become. Company Stories.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10