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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Letter Influence CEO Asset Management 109

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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Armstrong Storytelling White Paper Brand 108

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

You can purchase software to help with everything from your accounting to employee management and acquisition. One integral but often overlooked program to invest in is a digital asset manager. Digital assets can quickly become disorganized if there isn’t a strict organizational method in place. Organization.

Succession 66

Succession Asset Management Software Outsourcing 66

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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Course Asset Management Insurance Career 13

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

After working in the tourism industry and language training in B2B, she took her nunchaku to shake up the world of innovation! 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. Could you describe for us the successive steps and timeline?

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Workshop KPI Brand Project 75

Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 25, 2023

Curriculum : HBS offers a comprehensive finance curriculum that covers everything from investment banking to asset management. Curriculum : Wharton’s finance curriculum covers a wide range of finance topics, including corporate finance, investment management, and financial derivatives.

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Finance Reputation Education Career 78

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 26, 2024

For example, Legg Mason, a big asset management firm, saw its performance jump by more than 20% after the dot-com crisis by using its special network connections. Exclusive brokers have an edge because they can easily bring together the best ideas from different sources without competition.

Asset Management 52

Asset Management Banking Crisis Stress 52

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

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

However, when performed together, your department, plant or organization will be transformed into a sophisticated retention machine that will be the envy of your fellow managers or competitors. 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

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 Krumsiek, President & CEO of Calvert Group, Ltd.

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Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

After working in the tourism industry and language training in B2B, she took her nunchaku to shake up the world of innovation! 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. Could you describe for us the successive steps and timeline?

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Workshop KPI Brand Project 44

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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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 21

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

AUGUST 5, 2014

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets. In fact, many VCs don’t even invest in their fund from their personal assets, instead contributing their investment via their share of the management fees.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 21

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 Asset Management Disruptive Innovation 10

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

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.

Industry 15

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 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.

Hotels 12

Hotels Disruptive Innovation B2C Price 12

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'?

P&L 15

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 15

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. Management sought to create direct energy savings and a stronger brand that would be well-regarded by owners, employees, and consumers.

Execution 15

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. In other words, these managers are rewarded less for outperforming their competitors.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Consider appointing a chief data officer to ensure that data is being properly managed as a corporate asset. The question now is not about whether managers should investigate adopting AI but about how fast they can do so.

Process 15

Process Company Supply Chain Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Ignite managers’ passion to coach their employees. Historically, managers passed on knowledge, skills, and insights through coaching and mentoring. But in our more global, complex, and competitive world, the role of the manager has eroded. Managers are now overburdened with responsibilities.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 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

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

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.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. For example, a product evaluating nonprofit organizations may be highly useful to a wealth manager seeking to help his client to select a charity as part of a value-added tax efficiency service. Execution Knowledge management' In some cases, they’re right. For you, it may be different.

Execution 9

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 9

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.

IRR 9

IRR Energy Tips Commitment 9

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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Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As a result of the renewed competition from remote working, there is a clear need for corporate real estate managers to up their game and make offices more attractive places for workers to spend their day. The $20bn fund manager wants to ensure that assets are in line with the carbon reduction targets outlined in the Paris Agreement. .

Real Estate 128

Real Estate Asset Management Workshop Incentives 128

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 14

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". The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine.

Marketing 13

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 10

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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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 15