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Where Teamwork Thrives in the Money Management Industry

Harvard Business Review

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. Over time, the team must develop trust by having clear rules of engagement and accountabilities.

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Why You Should Have (at Least) Two Careers

Harvard Business Review

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. Yet these “process” questions don’t get to the heart of my reasons and motivations. Here’s how.

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Stop Assuming Your Data Will Bring You Riches

Harvard Business Review

Or a healthcare data offering evaluating physicians’ perceptions on a new drug may be useful not only to brand managers at pharmaceutical companies, but also to portfolio managers at asset management firms seeking to find promising investment opportunities. Ask yourself how many of these are truly viable.

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

Second, they deploy a small amount out of an experimental or mission-motivated pocket, which still holds back enormous amounts of capital. Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community. None of these are ideal outcomes. Type of impact.

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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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