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Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies

Harvard Business Review

Third, as a result of strong performances by worker- and employee-owned companies, it is becoming easier for workers to overcome arguably the biggest hurdle to worker buyouts: financing. The biggest difference is that workers have an important say in who manages them and how profits align with values. Already, U.S.

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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. We do not recruit team members whose main motivation is money. But few deny that teamwork is vital.

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

(Two recommendations I've gotten from Harvard government professor Dan Carpenter : Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance , by Sociologist Greta Krippner, and The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy , by political scientists Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli.).

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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. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g., Or third, and more common, is that they sit on the impact-investing sidelines.

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