Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

If you are going to maximize your organization’s performance you have to make a conscious, binding top-down management decision and commitment to develop a no nonsense approach to retention. The following are several must-do actions items for retaining the high-value human assets you’ve worked so hard to acquire: Start at the top!

Learning-by-Doing 50

Learning-by-Doing Open-book Training Micromanagement 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Although our short answer was "no," we believe that managing water will become a critical business skill for the 21st century. Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. Both of these groups may play a crucial role in creating an ecosystem for water innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

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. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. Absolutely not!

Six Sigma 21

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 21

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

Yet new breeds of solutions are emerging, with private and public players joining hands to find innovative answers. Standing before a brown swathe of land cut up into rectangular ditches for a World Bank-funded project just outside Liberia's capital city of Monrovia, George Howard is a beneficiary of one such innovation.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Making the right investments in learning and development programs has never been more important – or more of a challenge – for business leaders. billion dollars on learning and development programs, many executives still grapple with how to improve and enhance their effectiveness. Provide flexible learning options.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The superstars tend to be more involved in global flows of trade and finance, more digitally mature, and they dominate the lists of the most valued companies, the most valued brands, the most desirable places to work, and the most innovative companies. The churn rate of superstar cities is half that of superstar firms.

Industry 15

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. Coca-Cola devotes many resources to creating cleaner water supplies in developing countries. Having any more than that risks diluting executive focus.

Execution 16

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

Management 16

Management Software BPM Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". This is the way both to achieve higher returns and make the market more efficient.

Marketing 15

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm.

Disruptive Innovation 11

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Nowadays, the same handful of large, diversified asset management companies controls a significant proportion of US corporations. Magnifying their already large individual power, large asset managers also appear to coordinate many corporate governance activities, including those regarding compensation. public companies.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Examples of governance performance include management of the legal and regulatory environment, systemic risk management, and managing conflicts. In our recent HBR article " The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy ," we argue that typically there are tradeoffs between financial and nonfinancial (e.g.,

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s not uncommon to meet a lawyer who’d like to work in renewable energy, or an app developer who’d like to write a novel, or an editor who fantasizes about becoming a landscape designer. Subsidize Your Skill Development. Discover Real Innovations. It also helps me perform better at each job. Here’s how.

Career 9

Career Groupthink Banking Video 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. Or a healthcare data offering evaluating physicians’ perceptions on a new drug may be useful not only to brand managers at pharmaceutical companies, but also to portfolio managers at asset management firms seeking to find promising investment opportunities. In some cases, they’re right.

Execution 9

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management.

CAPM 9

CAPM Discount Price Finance 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Are you interested in knowing the educational hubs where you can find advanced learning and professional development programmes in accountancy that are available? This can give you an advantage in a range of careers, such as investment banking , asset management and insurance departments in business organisations.

Course 13

Course Asset Management Insurance Career 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

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.

Innovation 17

Innovation Products Productivity Venture Capitalist 17

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. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. Company Stories.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 14