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.

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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. When the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. They are not interested in hearing about the technological, regulatory, and societal developments that will determine the long-term, strategic positioning of this company.". Asset owners should build in-house investment capabilities whenever possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Another major industrial company moving to address water risk is ITT , the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems to transport, treat, and control fluids. ITT has a stake in seeing cities and companies invest in water management, but the company is discovering a relatively low level of awareness of the need. NLine Energy, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners , a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to Apple’s board of directors that may change the future of activist investing. Tim Ellis/Getty Images. A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Beliefs drive actions and altering our belief systems will ultimately do more than anything else to amplify and reinforce the kinds of behavioral changes that, in the end, are the only measure that counts. There are many ways to achieve this end, once belief systems shift. One path could be to concentrate one's portfolio.

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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. There’s a systemic Catch 22, one outsourced endowment manager told me. The trustee committees and endowment managers are fine with making investment decisions about any old asset.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

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. acquisition), Apple (Siri), Microsoft (Cortana) and Facebook (Messenger Platform) all have platforms for developers to deploy their chatbots.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Since no one can know what the source of the next systemic financial crisis will be, regulation can only do so much. Examples of governance performance include management of the legal and regulatory environment, systemic risk management, and managing conflicts. Finance Sustainability SASB'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Following this foolish bank guarantee, Irish government debt has quadrupled to over 108 percent of national output as the government injects money into the banking system. percent over the ten years of the construction bubble, while loans to developers constituted nearly 50 percent of national output by 2007. percent to 102.9

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

They assume that if they collect the data, and house it in their systems, it must be their data. Data can be commercialized in a number of ways: via annual subscriptions, via once-off consulting and integration fees, via custom content development, via research and advisory services, and via new analytics development.

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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). Key to the new system are rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Second, a systems approach helps companies go beyond single interventions to engage the entire insurance value chain — including local businesses, communities, and government — in the pursuit of these prevention gains. Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago.

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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.

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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. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management. Absolutely.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

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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