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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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How to Use Accurate Data for Strategic Decision-Making

Strategy Driven

What Is Data-Driven Insights and Digital Asset Management? The data can include statistics, marketing analysis, consumer information, or any collected facts and data that will help influence strategy to reach your goals. Digital asset management is the method and strategy of storing and organizing your information.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. These people tend not to have — or want — management responsibilities. Essential experts possess crucial knowledge but don’t want to manage others. Essential Experts.

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Two Forces Moving Business Closer to Climate Action

Harvard Business Review

Even those hippies over at asset manager Lazard calculate that the cost of solar PV technologies has dropped nearly 80% in five years. Polman and Branson are expected at these meetings now, but more leaders are joining. and an IRR of 27% for those companies with the most aggressive, science-based goals and actions on climate.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM).

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. 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. Lars is famous for that.

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The White House Selfie: The Visual Web’s Latest Victory

Harvard Business Review

They are moving their marketing strategy from create and control to influence and leverage. Digital asset management systems originally designed for a limited number of approved photos and metadata now have to capture, store (or link), and tag a broader array of assets.