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. For example, one senior VP of HR at Adobe eliminated the need for employees to produce performance reports, allowing them to devote their time to something more productive instead.

Company 50

Company Software Asset Management Long-term 50

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 12

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 12

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.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2011

Whether you are in an office, factory or on a construction site, the principles presented will improve your retention and enable you to save your organization thousands of dollars due to lost productivity, poor quality and customer service issues. Your attitude… develop an upbeat attitude. How well you communicate. Be genuine.

Company 71

Company Asset Management Human Resources Learning-by-Doing 71

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

With the EU’s passage of the Circular Economy Package in April, many European companies are now facing mandates to reuse the products they create for as long as possible. Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Whether you are in an office, factory or on a construction site, the principles presented will improve your retention and enable you to save your organization thousands of dollars due to lost productivity, poor quality and customer service issues. About the Author Jeff Kortes is known as the ‘No Nonsense Guy.’

Asset Management 50

Asset Management Career Goal Human Resources 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

Whether you are in an office, factory or on a construction site, the principles presented will improve your retention and enable you to save your organization thousands of dollars due to lost productivity, poor quality and customer service issues. It can affect the performance of the whole organization. Focus on Employee Assistance Actively.

Learning-by-Doing 50

Learning-by-Doing Open-book Training Micromanagement 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

History suggests that the main way information technology changes management is through changes in how information is gathered: the large-scale analysis of Operations Research reflected painstaking data collection around a few metrics, which were transferred to punch cards. How it effects product design and customer experience.

Management 11

Management Software BPM Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. This collective flood of individual investment has turned asset management companies into ginormous shareholders. BlackRock alone manages about $4.7 trillion in assets.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value. Often when superstar cities fall, they tend to be advanced economy cities, replaced by a developing economy city.

Industry 11

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 11

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. In a recent paper , we found that nudging employees to save worked in Afghanistan, one of the world’s least financially developed countries.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Asset Management Bottom-up 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 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat.

Six Sigma 16

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. It isn’t just about limiting downside risk; the company can also create profitable new products and services to address the urgent global needs such as those associated with scarce water supplies, hunger, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Execution 10

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 10

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. But when managers reduce prices, a fundamental question sometimes goes unasked: Will customers notice and respond as expected? Price wars have broken out in consumer industries around the world.

Price 12

Price Retail Discount Tactics 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

This is particularly true for women entrepreneurs, who rarely hold land in their own names and often have a shorter history in business than men, both of which make them even greater risks in the eyes of most banks, despite the fact that there is no notable gap between men's and women's productivity when all other factors are equal.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago. Additional economic value is unlocked, creating benefits for the member (more years of healthy life), the insurer (reduced claims over time), and society (healthier, more productive citizens).

Insurance 9

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

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. Although long ignored, these middle management positions have become increasingly recognized as critical to executing a company’s strategy.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Bain & Company’s research, discussed here , suggests that top performers are roughly four times as productive as average performers. The reason is that it has higher human capital productivity (HCP), which we know correlates closely with financial results. One other tip: involve as many line managers in the interviews you can.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital How To Engineering Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

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. Perhaps they believe better decisions result from productive collaboration.

Teamwork 13

Teamwork Industry Management Asset Management 13

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

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Many vendors have jumped into the field, and their offerings provide options for any company wanting to make their processes or products smarter. For example, Salesforce.com and Oracle recently announced that they are adding cognitive capabilities to their products. ” Mostly Buy. Go big with Watson.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

Citing a substantial body of expert research, the letter stated, “We believe there is a clear need for Apple to offer parents more choices and tools to help them ensure that young consumers are using your products in an optimal manner.” A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

Hedge 8

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 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 15, 2013

Examples of social performance include talent recruitment, employee compensation, customer security and privacy, customer transparency, responsible products, and financial inclusion. Examples of governance performance include management of the legal and regulatory environment, systemic risk management, and managing conflicts.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 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. Subsidize Your Skill Development. It also helps me perform better at each job. Here’s how.

Career 8

Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

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 use of internships as a testing ground helps remove any perceived risk that some managers may associate with hiring from this pool, and gives the participants a gradual and structured ramping-up platform.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. Many universities manage billions in research funding, but there is usually no R&D budget for their own product, namely delivering education to willing buyers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

Company 9

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Agricultural cooperatives Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray have become major players in dairy production and fruit farming, earning hundreds of millions in annual revenue. And companion bills developed to enable the U.S. Such ownership structures have already proven successful: About 17 million people, or 12% of the U.S.

ESOP 11

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

First, even large companies are carving out new niches to help businesses and communities manage water scarcity. For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products. Water Resources Management Co.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. 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. Don''t constrain your thinking to improving only products or services.

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. In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production. for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production."

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. ”) and micro feedback (“What could I have done differently in that meeting so it would have been more productive?”). At the end of our conversation, he asked me what feedback I had for him about his organization.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

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. And nowhere is good data needed more than in the onerous and expensive task of calculating a product's lifecycle footprint.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Smith charged that Goldman put its own interests ahead of clients; people were promoted by foisting profitable but unsuitable products on customers; and that Goldman's culture of service had given way to a culture of greed. Business leaders must respond directly to bad facts (carefully developed!),

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest CEO Asset Management Committee 8