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N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms. The financial services industry demands leaders who can strategically manage risks, drive innovation, and stay ahead of the curve.
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. According to US SIF , at the end of 2018 there was $8.72
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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.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
CEOs live in fear of activist hedge funds, and politicians worry about their effects on workers. Since the global financial crisis, a new wave of “constructive,” or friendly, activists (typically referred to as engagement funds) has tackled the same corporate governance issues, but with an explicitly low-key, humbler approach.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 24, 2016
In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Collectively, the world’s investment giants hold in excess of $70 trillion in assets, which represents the bulk of investable capital globally. But right now that’s not happening. How is this state of affairs possible?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2014
One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Volatility has returned to global markets, and consumer and business confidence is once again slipping. In scores of conversations I've had with business leaders, pension fund trustees, asset managers, employer associations, and NGOs since I first issued this call in HBR , everyone has agreed with the goal.
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