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Investors Can Influence Firms Via Dear CEO Letters

The Horizons Tracker

“Institutional investors have always had an influence on the companies in their portfolio, but it’s often in private and behind the scenes,” the researchers explain. ” Influencing others. . ” Influencing others. “Having this private engagement with investors is part of what companies do. .

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Two Forces Moving Business Closer to Climate Action

Harvard Business Review

Apple’s Tim Cook spoke as well, saying “the time for inaction has passed,” and commenting that we don’t need to accept any “tradeoff between economy and environment — both are doable if you innovate and set the bar high enough.”. As it turns out, that bar doesn’t have to be so high after all.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

William Hewlett, a founding father of Silicon Valley, famously said “you cannot manage what you cannot measure.” ” It seems to logically follow that opposite also holds true — what and how you measure something influences the way it is managed.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

In a way it’s surprisingly close to Shiller, but Shiller’s view is that people can’t know the true model and then become excessively influenced by social forces, and can get into a herd mentality. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management.

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