HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Blackrock: Back in June, the asset manager required all of its employees to report their vaccination status. Google: The search engine giant announced at the end of July that all employees would need to be vaccinated to work from its campus. Bank of America: The bank will allow only vaccinated employees to reenter its offices.

Company 98

Company Offshoring Airlines Banking 98

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Prior to joining StrategyDriven, Nathan was a senior manager in Ernst & Young and Deloitte Consulting’s Power & Utility practices; advising industry leaders on the design and implementation of integrated fleet asset management programs.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Your star engineer? AllianceBernstein (AB), a $3 billion asset management company based in Manhattan, rates each of its 3,700 employees every year on both performance and potential. One well-known Silicon Valley firm relied heavily on headhunters to find engineers for many years. How much is your top salesperson worth?

Human Capital 8

Human Capital How To Engineering Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The market size for responsible investment is large and growing, with some of the largest asset managers like BlackRock , State Street Global Advisors , and Vanguard responding to demand by opening ESG-themed funds in recent years. 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

APRIL 25, 2011

What is missing is growth capital for the small companies that should be the economic engines of their communities. Tim Ferguson is the Founder, Chair, and Managing Partner of Next Street , a merchant bank for the urban enterprise. What is missing in cities is not revitalizing new ideas.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

If a person with an engineering degree wishes to run the division someday, what additional education and work experience should they obtain, and in what order? Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Recommendations could help employees choose career paths that lead to high performance, satisfaction, and retention.

Process 12

Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In January, Oxfam announced it would team with the asset manager Symbiotics to launch the Small Enterprise Impact Investment Fund (SEIFF), based in Luxembourg. Even non-governmental organizations, hardly usual allies for the private sector, are joining the wave of support for small business.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Essential experts possess crucial knowledge but don’t want to manage others. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. Let’s examine each a little more closely. Essential Experts.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 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

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. He is a licensed as a Professional Engineer by the State of Tennessee. Click here to read Mike’s complete biography.

Power 50

Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control. Suppose you’re an engineer and you’re building a bridge. So what you might do as an engineer is try to build your bridge to be safe in a worst case. The discipline of engineering has evolved to do precisely that.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, recently built and released an investor research application using Kubernetes in 100 days, about the time it might normally take simply to procure computer equipment, on the cloud software it runs on its own computers.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore).

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing. Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13