Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Today’s leading organizations are using machine learning–based tools to automate decision processes, and they’re starting to experiment with more-advanced uses of artificial intelligence (AI) for digital transformation. AI can expedite “exception handling” in many financial processes. In fact, 44% of U.S.

Process 11

Process Company Supply Chain Software 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Although our short answer was "no," we believe that managing water will become a critical business skill for the 21st century. Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. Both of these groups may play a crucial role in creating an ecosystem for water innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Accounting refers to the process of keeping track of a company’s financial transactions (outgoings and income) in order to establish profit margins and progress. This can give you an advantage in a range of careers, such as investment banking , asset management and insurance departments in business organisations.

Course 13

Course Asset Management Insurance Industry 13

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. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. Absolutely not!

Six Sigma 16

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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). That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing.

Management 11

Management Software BPM Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Examples of governance performance include management of the legal and regulatory environment, systemic risk management, and managing conflicts. In our recent HBR article " The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy ," we argue that typically there are tradeoffs between financial and nonfinancial (e.g.,

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Yet these “process” questions don’t get to the heart of my reasons and motivations. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” Discover Real Innovations. ” and “How do you find time to do it all?”

Career 8

Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. Or a healthcare data offering evaluating physicians’ perceptions on a new drug may be useful not only to brand managers at pharmaceutical companies, but also to portfolio managers at asset management firms seeking to find promising investment opportunities. In some cases, they’re right.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. Five Questions For 2013.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production." In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore). trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15