Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Senior managers at Allianz Global Investors, a global asset management company, attended a workshop called Dialogue in the Dark, led by visually impaired trainers who conducted the entire workshop in total darkness. Radjou is an independent strategy consultant and author of the NYT bestseller Jugaad Innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For instance, the real estate fund manager Schroders became the founding signatory to the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative in December 2020, and earlier this year published its pathway to becoming net-zero by 2050.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 10, 2022

BlackRock was the focus of the study because, with over $9 trillion in assets under management, they are the largest asset manager in the world, with stakes in over 3,000 firms. ” Influencing others. They started their “Dear CEO” letters in 2012 and have prompted other investment firms to follow suit.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription, to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Necessity is the mother of invention. When times or resources are tight, people usually figure out how to make due: they create work-arounds, devise new [.].

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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.

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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. So, you see, corporate culture can be, and is, quite concrete. Barbara T.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

The University provided me with an exceptional opportunity - to work in Hong Kong at a financial company in their asset management and private equity divisions. I’m a rising junior at Brown University with a passion for supporting entrepreneurs and understanding how businesses develop.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

Sit down with the other managers in your organization and identify the problems that are faced by people in your workforce. Develop innovative ideas and deploy specific new plans to provide employees with more flexibility in their work, support for their common needs, and help for dealing with personal issues that impact their life.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Integration and Innovation Abound – According to the report, 30% of the S&P 100 companies include some oversight of diversity issues at the board level and 34% of companies include diversity measures within their compensation plans. “We It is also important in evaluating the effectiveness of diversity initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. The VC industry has failed to innovate. LPs can certainly do a better job of paying VCs to act less like asset managers and more like investors. To understand how we got here, we need to understand four major issues: VCs aren’t paid to generate great returns.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

The development and growth of your talent is vital to your ongoing success, ability to innovate, and overall productivity. Yet they can’t do it alone, nor do you want them to.

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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. Having any more than that risks diluting executive focus. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case.

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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.

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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.

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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.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Wherever you start, it’s important to link the projects to a long-term digital platform strategy to avoid having disconnected islands of innovation. Many organizations are also implementing AI centers of excellence to work closely with business departments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Apple’s Tim Cook spoke as well, saying “the time for inaction has passed,” and commenting that we don’t need to accept any “tradeoff between economy and environment — both are doable if you innovate and set the bar high enough.”. As it turns out, that bar doesn’t have to be so high after all.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” Discover Real Innovations. When I worked on Wall Street, my professional circle was initially limited to other folks in the financial services sector: bankers, traders, analysts, economists.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

“But you still need three things to be updated before you fully take advantage: Organizational innovation, trained human capital, and social institutions, like infrastructure and regulation, that accommodate new technologies.” “It forces our internal teams to think about innovating faster,” said Mr. Jackson.

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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".

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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 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management. There are people very much steeped in this work, including you, who are out there managing stocks and other assets based on it. What we often find is that asset allocation is something the clients themselves want to manage.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This can give you an advantage in a range of careers, such as investment banking , asset management and insurance departments in business organisations. The leading experiential learning model offered by these programmes will give you the best academic experiences that can make a positive impact on your professional career.

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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. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

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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. The larger trend here is the continued growth of "open" — open data and open innovation, including new value-chain business partnerships and cattle-call contests inviting in any and all ideas.

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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. Five Questions For 2013.

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