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

AUGUST 21, 2017

Let’s take the common word processing software packages that companies use. Sadly, far too many people use Google Docs as a simple word processing tool and nothing more. No matter what operating system or type of device you use, there’s a good chance that the software you use can actually be used across multiple different platforms.

Software 50

Software Asset Management Fixed Assets Document 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants. And, as has become the hallmark of today’s best startups, some have already begun the process of pivoting.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

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

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Performance Improvement through Employee Engagement Initiatives – Led employee engagement/process & performance improvement initiatives at the Sequoyah and Watts Bar Nuclear plants in order to identify solutions to close the $30 million gap in operations and maintenance (O&M) costs and increase generation.

Power 50

Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

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. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The market size for responsible investment is large and growing, with some of the largest asset managers like BlackRock , State Street Global Advisors , and Vanguard responding to demand by opening ESG-themed funds in recent years. How is it that sharp-toothed activists are becoming advocates of long-term sustainable investing?

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Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Yes, financial institutions should be environmentally responsible in their own operations. Don''t get us wrong.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

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. Question whether processes should be improved, eliminated, or disrupted.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

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. Note that essential experts typically don’t want to manage others; they only want to manage themselves.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

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. Here again, CEOs can and should manage that process actively.

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Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine. Nothing beats the tracking mechanism of stock prices when it comes to quantifying the constant push-and-pull of thousands and thousands of investors and managers, pursuing and acting upon different strategies.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

And that’s where software asset management can help. Why Software Asset Management (SAM) Matters. Comprehensive asset management is essential to an effective IT infrastructure, service, and cybersecurity management program. Aligning Data Sources. And Microsoft can help.

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Asset Management Software Licensing Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. Customer acquisition has been halted; you need to maximize value from existing customers. Look for unorthodox opportunities.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity").

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. Finally, how much will we challenge the nature of capitalism, and what will that mean for how companies operate?

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. 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).

Management 11

Management Software BPM Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

Although members of the water industry have found success using digital technologies and analytics, they’ve also faced challenges when trying to transform the roles and mindsets of their employees and their internal- and customer-facing processes. As one U.S. ” Regulatory incentives often exacerbate this behavior.

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Industry Supply Chain Incentives Technology 8