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4 Ways to Reinvest in Your Small Business to Drive Success

Strategy Driven

You can purchase software to help with everything from your accounting to employee management and acquisition. One integral but often overlooked program to invest in is a digital asset manager. Digital assets can quickly become disorganized if there isn’t a strict organizational method in place. Organization.

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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

Malkiel argues that most of the gigantic growth in asset-management-industry profits since 1980 "is likely to represent a deadweight loss for investors." Widespread outsourcing of those functions to markets has skewed incentives and provided huge windfalls for individuals who now consider themselves entitled to such rewards.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, trustees control universities’ sometimes-giant endowments, and most often delegate this control to asset managers who treat the endowments as pools of money with the sole purpose of creating more money. There’s a systemic Catch 22, one outsourced endowment manager told me.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business Review

This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Measuring brand exposure. Automated programs can recognize products, people, logos, and more.

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The Most Overlooked Part of Your Data Security

Harvard Business Review

Second, there is the threat we saw with our Robin Hood IT director: Trusted insiders can take retired assets any time before the handoff to the outsourcer, and before data is destroyed. Educating senior management about the risks will hopefully secure IT asset managers the resources needed to prevent an ITAD-related breach.

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

By identifying where to invest, the desired intensity of impact, and an investment’s risk profile, investors can start to identify “impact asset classes,” and then look within their financial portfolio, asset class by asset class, to find impact opportunities that map onto their financial risk and return objectives.

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