Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

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. Although such a system may initially cost more, you’ll make huge savings in the long run, both in monetary terms and in terms of the time you save by not having to retrain staff.

Company 50

Company Software Asset Management Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Our discussion got me thinking about how we often fail to have discussions about development goals with our kids… or our employees. Those discussions can have a significant impact on someone’s long-term success and your ability to get the best out of your people.

Asset Management 50

Asset Management Career Goal Human Resources 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. The debate is far from settled and will likely go on for a long time.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The term “activist hedge fund” connotes to many a “corporate raider” who creates short-term profits at the expense of other stakeholders and long-term investors. 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

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Finally, some sustainability investments can pay for themselves through reduced energy consumption and waste over the long term. Shareholders are seeing these connections and speaking up.

Execution 11

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

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.

Asset Management 8

Asset Management Report Information Globalization 8

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

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". There can be no contradiction, or so the theory goes.

Marketing 10

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The three new Wall Street programs follow a similar formula to Returnship in terms of timing and small class size. And last week J.P. In full disclosure, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

But today, tighter budgets, flatter organizations, a heavy workload, and too many direct reports often leave managers without the time — and sometimes without the skills — to shoulder the responsibility of being coach and mentor. And yet, this function remains critical to the long-term health and productivity of the organization.

Management 8

Management Mentor Content Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

I’m a partner at a venture capital firm, and venture capital has long been a key way for the top-performing endowments to deploy capital. Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you’re using any of these vendors’ offerings, before long it will probably be harder to avoid cognitive features than to use them. It has a “10-10-10” development approach, in which the goal is to build a rough cognitive application in 10 hours, customize it in 10 days, and go live within 10 weeks.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The greening of the supply chain. But please.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. In the long-version explanation of the prizes published by the Nobel committee last fall, Campbell was cited more often than anybody else, apart from the three winners. 2 is this distinction between short-term vs. long-term predictability.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community. Another example would be the Calvert Foundation’s Women Investing in Women Initiative , which allows individual investors to make loans to women in developing markets to access clean energy.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13