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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms. They remain current with industry regulations and compliance requirements, ensuring their organizations operate within legal boundaries.

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Research: Index Funds Are Improving Corporate Governance

Harvard Business Review

Hedge fund activist Bill Ackman posed that question recently in his fund’s annual letter to investors. At the same time, clients withdrew $207 billion overall from actively managed funds, according to the research firm Morningstar. In the same way, index funds don’t selectively buy more shares when managers perform well.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business Review

Convincing employees to go above and beyond the call of duty may be the epitome of personnel management. How talent management is changing. Surveying 180 teams of employees and managers at U.S. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Why Is It So Hard for Us to Admit Our Mistakes?

Harvard Business Review

He manages a $2 billion hedge fund that had a terrible quarter — two of his largest positions, both energy stocks, dropped 25%, turning what would have been a lackluster result into a disaster. HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work. Managing People Book. One case in point I came across recently was Brad.

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How to conduct pre-employment background checks?

HR Digest

HR managers need to address the question of qualification a little deeper. Ask these questions too, especially if the position is mid manager and higher level: Does the applicant have all the necessary licensing or certification qualifications required? We cannot emphasize the need for compliance while conducting background checks.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Here’s how he defined it: Culture relates to the implicit norms that guide behavior in the absence of regulations or compliance rules—and sometimes despite those explicit restraints. And what happened to the compensation of the typical JP Morgan managing director? Each managing director was financially interdependent with every other.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.