Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Senior managers at Allianz Global Investors, a global asset management company, attended a workshop called Dialogue in the Dark, led by visually impaired trainers who conducted the entire workshop in total darkness. What extreme step you can take to experience and lead yourself differently?

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Crisis Workshop Short-term Business Model 285

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Today, a lot of a business’s brand can be found online and wrapped up in all of its digital assets, i.e. all the things that exist online that your business has a right to use, such as photos, logos, presentations, etc. So, digital asset management is important. Always think globally.

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Brand Asset Management Globalization Content 51

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.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 11

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.

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Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

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.

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Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

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

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.

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Management Software BPM Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. Improving perception.

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Price Retail Discount Tactics 12

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 16

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?

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 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.

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Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Recognizing that getting Japanese institutional investors to pressure companies to implement changes that run counter to decades of cozy understanding will be, at best, a slow process. 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

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. Water Resources Management Co. NLine Energy, Inc.

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Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

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

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 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. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

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., Intensity and immediacy of impact.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Yet these “process” questions don’t get to the heart of my reasons and motivations. Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.”

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Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

More complex types of cognitive technology — neural or deep learning networks, natural language processing, and algorithms — can seem like black boxes even to the data scientists who create them. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG. How robotics and machine learning are changing business. ” Mostly Buy.

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Organization Software CRM Technology 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. Risk escalation and whistleblower processes can enhance monitoring and transparency. It has been wisely said that people don't do what you tell them to do; they do what you pay them to do.

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Management Banking Committee Risk Management 13

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.

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Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Right now, the U.S.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. In clinging to the status quo, they fail to adapt to the rapidly changing market and the evolving demands of the customer. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. Look for unorthodox opportunities.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

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.

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