Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 For CEOs, creating and communicating long-term growth strategy is easier said than done.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Some focus on short-term goals and on deepening their depth of knowledge in their domain of interest. Others have a long-term vision that enables them to differentiate various patterns and see how these will help them succeed. Both perspectives are limiting. Know your limitations, and try to see beyond them.

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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. Some large investors already have a long-term view. Take consumer goods giant Unilever.

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Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But three years after the financial crisis broke, I remain more convinced than ever that the fundamental cure for restoring economic growth and repairing societal trust in business is to deepen our ability to manage companies for the long term. Taking a long view doesn't mean companies should go radio-silent.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sean Woodroffe, CHRO at TIAA : With more than 1 Trillion in assets under management and more than 17,000 employees, Woodroffe is transforming an old-line asset manager into a culture of next generation talent. He is someone who understands the power of talent and team in leading an organization into the future.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Although such a system may initially cost more, you’ll make huge savings in the long run, both in monetary terms and in terms of the time you save by not having to retrain staff.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2019

As an example, task management software can be very useful for those working in teams to avoid miscommunication and those individual staff members who are taking on the slack of others. There are many other systems that now exist, including mobile device management for better asset management.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Those discussions can have a significant impact on someone’s long-term success and your ability to get the best out of your people. ’ He is the President of Human Asset Management LLC, a human resource consulting firm specializing in executive search and leadership training.

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Asset Management Career Goal Human Resources 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Women may make up more than half the workforce 1 but continue to be significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in C-level executive positions, according to a major new study released today by Calvert Investments, a long-time leader in advocating for corporate diversity. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Source U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The term “activist hedge fund” connotes to many a “corporate raider” who creates short-term profits at the expense of other stakeholders and long-term investors. How is it that sharp-toothed activists are becoming advocates of long-term sustainable investing?

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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. The debate is far from settled and will likely go on for a long time.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Finally, some sustainability investments can pay for themselves through reduced energy consumption and waste over the long term. Shareholders are seeing these connections and speaking up.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

These were among the questions addressed at a luncheon in New York convened by CFA Institute President John Rogers with financial industry leaders that included representatives from private and not-for-profit asset managers, public pension funds, insurance companies, and diversified financial services firms.

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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.

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Asset Management Report Information Globalization 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". There can be no contradiction, or so the theory goes.

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Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The three new Wall Street programs follow a similar formula to Returnship in terms of timing and small class size. And last week J.P. In full disclosure, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

I’m a partner at a venture capital firm, and venture capital has long been a key way for the top-performing endowments to deploy capital. But if you go to the operational side of the institution, they feel investing capital is the business of their money managers, so they in turn pass the buck or avoid the decision entirely.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Wherever you start, it’s important to link the projects to a long-term digital platform strategy to avoid having disconnected islands of innovation. Many organizations are also implementing AI centers of excellence to work closely with business departments.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

But today, tighter budgets, flatter organizations, a heavy workload, and too many direct reports often leave managers without the time — and sometimes without the skills — to shoulder the responsibility of being coach and mentor. And yet, this function remains critical to the long-term health and productivity of the organization.

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Management Mentor Content Training 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you’re using any of these vendors’ offerings, before long it will probably be harder to avoid cognitive features than to use them. For example, Vanguard, the investments firm, created the semi-autonomous Personal Advisor Services (PAS) capability for its asset management customers.

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Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Each year, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, sends a much-anticipated letter to leading CEOs. Pooling GRAs in this way reduces administrative costs and gives GRA holders access to higher returning investment products and the best asset managers. Phil Ashley/Getty Images.

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Asset Management Crisis Cost Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. China, China, and China. Business as usual is no more.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

In the long-version explanation of the prizes published by the Nobel committee last fall, Campbell was cited more often than anybody else, apart from the three winners. 2 is this distinction between short-term vs. long-term predictability. That was another discovery of the 1980s that was inconsistent with the paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Some investors might want to support strategies that generate critical long-term change, such as essential preventative healthcare for hard-to-serve populations, as primary-care provider Iora Health seeks to do. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g.,

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services. These innovators suggest a path forward, but they remain the rare exception.

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