Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

You will learn: How to avoid the dreaded meeting where you have to say, “We are letting you go because you just aren’t a good fit.”. The techniques you will learn are nothing fancy. 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

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

She naturally joined Louis Zero’s team as Shake my Firm project manager and then took on the development of Louis Zero workshop as a whole. 2) You have developed a bespoke innovation approach: Spot, Play, Go. We also work on positioning, run brand foundation workshops, build the brand platform and do the branding.

Workshop 44

Workshop KPI Brand Project 44

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.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.) A few key characteristics distinguish superstar firms from the rest, that perhaps others could learn from. The bottom 10% destroy roughly as much economic value as the superstar firms create.

Industry 15

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. 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). yagi studio/Getty Images.

Management 15

Management Software BPM Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

percent over the ten years of the construction bubble, while loans to developers constituted nearly 50 percent of national output by 2007. Spain simply cannot do this even if it wanted to: the problem is too big. Spain can, and should, do better, if it learns from Ireland's mistakes. percent to 102.9 trillion dollars.

Real Estate 16

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. The Three Approaches. Two Success Stories.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

But when I talk to general partners at venture capital funds that focus on education — Learn Capital, where I work, Rethink Education, and University Ventures — they report that university endowments have not been nearly as interested as other institutions in the work we’re doing. There are examples of universities forging ahead.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Education Asset Management Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Yes, it's December again somehow: time to look back on what we've learned and oversimplify into a handy list. 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 greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

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. They began grouping clients by practice and focused sales associates on developing industry trends and insights. You must move from B2C to B2B, or vice versa.

Hotels 12

Hotels Disruptive Innovation B2C Price 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Unless you have written data contracts in place that clearly allocate ownership of data and derivative works, you may not be able to do anything with the data. How do you ensure that your execution is commensurate with the revenue opportunity? Do you decide to stop? Test, learn, and tweak. Sometimes that makes sense.

Execution 9

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. I was happy to hear him respond that he wanted to do exactly that — and I wasn’t surprised to hear him say that he didn’t know how to begin. But learning a new skill (like candor and feedback) is inherently messy.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

More complex types of cognitive technology — neural or deep learning networks, natural language processing, and algorithms — can seem like black boxes even to the data scientists who create them. How robotics and machine learning are changing business. Build on your analytics strength to emphasize machine learning.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

You will learn: How to avoid the dreaded meeting where you have to say, “We are letting you go because you just aren’t a good fit.” The techniques you will learn are nothing fancy. Our discussion got me thinking about how we often fail to have discussions about development goals with our kids… or our employees.

Asset Management 50

Asset Management Career Goal Human Resources 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Beliefs drive actions and altering our belief systems will ultimately do more than anything else to amplify and reinforce the kinds of behavioral changes that, in the end, are the only measure that counts. Does anyone honestly think this crowd today are doing all they could to provide good governance and proper stewardship?

Marketing 14

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. But how do you do that?

CAPM 10

CAPM Discount Price Finance 10