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. I was becoming a process thinker.

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. Speaking Engagements.

Human Resources 50

Human Resources Asset Management Newsletter Construction 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Accounting refers to the process of keeping track of a company’s financial transactions (outgoings and income) in order to establish profit margins and progress. Are you interested in knowing the educational hubs where you can find advanced learning and professional development programmes in accountancy that are available?

Course 13

Course Asset Management Insurance Industry 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

His experience includes within the nuclear oversight, quality assurance, engineering, licensing, performance benchmarking and improvement, training, leadership development, and change management functions. For decades, Mike has served in senior leadership roles within the Power & Utilities Industry.

Power 50

Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. The Three Approaches. Two Success Stories.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

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 9

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Sure it's important to inject discipline into product and service development, but not so much that it discourages creativity.

Six Sigma 16

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Secondly, it is often innovators who must lead customers down new paths, showing them new ways of managing a resource and saving money that they didn't know were possible. So in addition to large multinationals such as GE and ITT, there are a number of startups in the process of bringing new technologies to the water industry.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

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 8

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

More complex types of cognitive technology — neural or deep learning networks, natural language processing, and algorithms — can seem like black boxes even to the data scientists who create them. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG. How robotics and machine learning are changing business. ” Mostly Buy.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 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

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

Career 8

Career Groupthink Banking Video 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

MAY 9, 2012

The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine. Nothing beats the tracking mechanism of stock prices when it comes to quantifying the constant push-and-pull of thousands and thousands of investors and managers, pursuing and acting upon different strategies.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. As a result, the company achieved its desired “price image” as a value retailer, developed a more strategic approach to pricing, and increased revenues by roughly 1%.

Price 12

Price Retail Discount Tactics 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. You can process it all later and decide what you want to act on, but in the moment just take it all in. Like learning any new skill, it’s an iterative and never-ending process. And say thank you.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

This will put pressure on financial institutions to better manage nonfinancial ESG performance through innovation in new products, processes, and business models that will enable them to do this and improve on financial performance at the same time. Finance Sustainability SASB'

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

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.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. They began grouping clients by practice and focused sales associates on developing industry trends and insights. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. Look for unorthodox opportunities.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. In his November newsletter , he demonstrated exactly how much of a drag on the U.S. economy commodity prices have become.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing.

Management 11

Management Software BPM Technology 11