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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

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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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

In Ireland a National Asset Management Agency was formed to cleanse private banks' balance sheets and disburse the bad loans over a longer period. A program of debt forgiveness, targeted to reduce moral hazard, is necessary given the precarious nature of the balance sheets of both financial corporations and households.

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Is It Ever OK to Break Into Your Colleague’s Computer?

Harvard Business Review

I had been preparing a client presentation with several of my colleagues at our asset management firm. On the negative side, it may create worker dissatisfaction, hurt morale, and erode trust. Eric was a great trader, but this posed a real difficulty for Steve — what should he do with the information he possessed?

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Free Yourself from Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business Review

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. Thru-put was 30% higher, quality reached record levels, and morale was way up. Still, management remained unconvinced, believing that workers must be directed, tightly managed, and never allowed to set their own pace.

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Serving Shareholders Doesn’t Mean Putting Profit Above All Else

Harvard Business Review

We think that the answer can be found in existing proxy access rules, which make it difficult for moral issues to be put up for a shareholder vote. The impact extends to asset management companies. In fact, the idea is so simple that one might wonder why we do not already see such products. Does It Matter?