Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2019

Robert Eccles, a visiting professor of management practice at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, says that the global investment community’s interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues has finally reached a tipping point.

Asset Management 12

Asset Management Metrics Globalization Tips 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. We began collaborating when we recognized how interlaced asset management and product recovery were in textbook CEs. We identified these approaches through our work with life cycle asset management company DLL.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The debate about superstar firms and superstar effects has been intensifying, partly in response to the rapid growth of global US tech companies. In our recent research at the McKinsey Global Institute, we examined the superstar phenomenon across firms, as well as sectors and cities. Wider dynamics may be at play.

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

1) Believe in your power to make markets efficient — but abandon the efficient market dogma. The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine. Assuming the market is perfectly efficient, it appears, merely damns it to inefficiency.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Yet the unfortunate side effect of uncompetitive markets is that consumers pay higher prices. Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. Index funds have given millions of people relatively low-cost access to the stock market.

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Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 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

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

We are concerned about the lack of disclosure, because data is critical to demonstrating progress in female and minority representation,” said Aditi Mohapatra, lead author of the report and analyst specializing in diversity issues in the Sustainability Research Department of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. “It

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Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. They can signal to the market the types of investors they wish to own their shares.

Long-term 12

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Abe has even met with one of the most prominent American activists, Dan Loeb , in a private albeit well-publicized encounter, suggesting he sees value in foreign involvement in Japanese markets. They seek to win management over by sharing well-researched analysis and connecting them to a network of potential partners.

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ROE Construction Hedge Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

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. Four proposals received majority support, more than in the previous six years combined.

Execution 11

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Similarly, Japan's automobile industry has been plagued by a series of embarrassing quality problems and recalls, and has lost market share to companies from South Korea and even (gasp!)

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. Collectively, the world’s investment giants hold in excess of $70 trillion in assets, which represents the bulk of investable capital globally. How is this state of affairs possible?

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The truth is that the worlds of activism and impact investing are converging much more swiftly than most people realize — and this union holds enormous promise for those who wish to see the creation of capital markets that support sustainable economic development. A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

Hedge 9

Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. They are not employees; they are contingent workers who are nonetheless vital to an organization’s R&D, marketing, and other key processes.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Last week, “ The Better Growth, Better Climate ” report from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate exploded the myth that we have to choose between building a prosperous, expanding economy and doing it in a way that protects our shared home and resource base (also called the planet). We citizen consumers need to step up, too.

IRR 8

IRR Energy Tips Commitment 8

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.

Long-term 8

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Jeff Skilling, as a condition of his employment at Enron, insisted the company adopt mark-to-market accounting. One of my clients, a CEO of an asset management firm, said to me, "I would not blink if one of my fund managers lost $10 million due to a wrong bet, but I would fire him immediately if he cheated $10 on his expense report.".

Management 12

Management Banking Committee Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

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P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.".

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Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout. Such levels of unemployment will accelerate defaults in the mortgage market; depress growth; and may lead to large-scale social unrest and political turmoil.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

. “It’s already changing organizations, by moving IT from a cost center to something with a place at the table in a lot of different meetings,” said Chris Jackson, head of cloud platforms at Pearson, a global learning company. How it effects product design and customer experience.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The ongoing failure of policy at a global level (with the important exceptions of some successes/workarounds such as new mileage targets for cars and trucks and a carbon tax in Australia ). The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Right now, the U.S. Nuclear on the outs.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

In addition to using this shared-value approach in its wholly owned South African and UK businesses, Discovery has established a global network of insurance partners that employ it, including John Hancock Financial (U.S.), Altogether, the model is employed in 15 markets, impacting over 5.5 million people.

Insurance 9

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g.,

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

DNA genetic testing company 23andMe fell behind on its communications with the FDA, resulting in a temporary ban on marketing the company’s personal genetic screening services to the public. The inadequacies of the old approach are evident in recent startup stumbles, even when the technology is sound.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

HR Digest

MAY 23, 2023

James Morton, chief investment officer at Santa Lucia Asset Management, recently said that Americans should brace themselves for a near certain recession this year, despite recent optimism from the Biden administration. The effect of even a “mild” recession, that is widely forecast will hit the US job market later this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Ryan Sharpe Asset Management 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. The co-op gives lobstermen a way to participate in the wholesale market and to share in the profits. Gore and Associates, are leaders in their industries. Already, U.S.

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ESOP Company Cooper IAM 12