Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

At Cascade Asset Management , an environmentally minded recycler of computer components, sustainability reigns supreme, from a wholly green headquarters to employee nameplates personally made from recycled computer pieces. Visual storytelling is a powerful tool.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. This collective flood of individual investment has turned asset management companies into ginormous shareholders. BlackRock alone manages about $4.7 trillion in assets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

These days, most firms’ most powerful shareholders tend to benefit more from the performance of the entire industry than the performance of an individual firm. Nowadays, the same handful of large, diversified asset management companies controls a significant proportion of US corporations. public companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

1) Believe in your power to make markets efficient — but abandon the efficient market dogma. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard. The investment management industry has been highly commoditized.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Recently, my colleagues at the Focus Consulting Group and I surveyed more than 100 asset management firms around the world, testing both for the strength of their cultures and for the effectiveness of their leadership teams. They understand the power of focusing on the positive and not dwelling on the negative.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Mike joins StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities Advisory Services practice. “We We are fortunate to have an industry professional of Mike’s caliber to help our Power & Utility clients meet these challenges. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and EUCG Peer Advisor.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Six Sigma , Kaizen , Lean , and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

In particular, behavioral economics—that marriage of economics and psychology that has put terms like “ nudge ” into the popular lexicon—has provided a powerful tool for increasing savings, in the form of the default enrollment. We see two takeaways for CEOs, managers, and impact investors.

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Banking Finance Asset Management Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. The experience of a European discount apparel retailer illustrates the power of a disciplined price-perception program. Price wars have broken out in consumer industries around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Say-on-pay is part of a big shift in recent years toward giving professional money managers more tools to affect the governance of (and in some cases discipline the managers of) corporations. Which makes sense — most asset managers have a shared interest with CEOs in keeping top-of-the-scale paychecks high.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

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. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on. They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ghosn was recently arrested for financial misconduct, fired from his position as Nissan’s board chairman, and criticized by Nissan’s Japanese CEO for accumulating too much power. Without Ghosn, the Nissan-Renault alliance is likely to falter — leaving two small auto manufacturers without competitive economies of scale.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Drone- and satellite-based asset management. AI can augment the power to get insights from customer data — perhaps beyond the point where customers are comfortable. If a person with an engineering degree wishes to run the division someday, what additional education and work experience should they obtain, and in what order?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

This is one of the most powerful tools that you can use to elevate coaching. Some managers we spoke with make it a point to schedule regular phone conversations or in-person meetings on a monthly — and sometimes even weekly — basis. Imagine a top sales person in the field giving his pitch on a certain product.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The power of economics lies in its rigor," he wrote. When a top executive at the world's largest asset manager (Peter Fisher of BlackRock) lists Debt: The First 5,000 Years by anthropologist (and Occupy Wall Streeter) David Graeber as one of his top reads of 2012 , you know something's going on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions. Free Yourself from What You “Should” Be Doing. Andy Molinsky. Jane Heifetz.

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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. How is this state of affairs possible?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

When Steve took her to lunch near the office to discuss how things were going, he found out it was even worse than he thought: The restaurant manager called him into a back room to tell him he had good reason to believe Eve was selling cocaine out of his restaurant.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I had been preparing a client presentation with several of my colleagues at our asset management firm. We need to learn how to harness the power of digital surveillance as a benign force. 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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. This approach can be a powerful driver of new ideas — particularly when you compare your organization to those outside of your industry. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. Compare Your Organization to Others.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Behavioral economists know well the power of instant gratification and overoptimism that too often lead to poor decisions — like reaching for an extra slice of cake or putting off the dreaded morning run.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Lower costs have been reason enough for many companies to shut down their proprietary data centers and consume computational power and attendant software as a series of on-demand services. The cost may be lower, but like traditional computers, it is still a cost.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Total investment in new power generation is a good indication of where we're headed, and for the first time renewables beat fossil fuels globally. In June, the New York Times declared a warming world hostile to food production.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. You’ll not only be doing the right thing by owning and cleaning up your mistakes but also sending two powerful messages to your organization: leaders make mistakes when they are learning something new, and they say they are sorry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

nonprofit organizations like the Heartland Capital Strategy Institute are bringing together institutional investors, private asset managers, and worker representatives to harness some of the $13 trillion of assets in workers’ pension funds to invest in worker-friendly businesses that offer good investment returns.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Obama administration issued new standards to double the fuel economy of cars and trucks , and the National Resources Defense Council (an NGO) proposed using the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants by 25%. On May 26, Germany set a world record when it produced 50% of its electricity needs from solar power alone.

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