Defining and Improving Corporate Culture

By |2018-04-03T10:49:45-05:00April 3rd, 2018|Corporate Culture, Trends in Asset Management, Trends in Human Resources|

Corporate culture is hard to define, yet culture is often cited by employers and employees as an important factor in talent placement. Further, Harvard researchers found that,“when aligned with strategy [...]

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Shareholders Target Female CEOs

By |2018-02-12T19:57:12-05:00February 12th, 2018|Corporate Culture, Gender Balance, Trends in Asset Management, Trends in Human Resources|

Last year, State Street announced its intention to use shareholder activism to work towards gender parity on corporate boards. However, it appears that women on corporate boards can also be [...]

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Can Ethics Guide Artificial Intelligence?

By |2018-02-12T19:22:41-05:00September 25th, 2017|Corporate Culture, Trends in Human Resources|

As CEO of IBM, Ginni Rometty is no stranger to both the complexities of the modern business environment and gender diversity. Artificial intelligence, or cognitive computing, as IBM prefers to call [...]

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Addressing Cybersecurity in the Business World

By |2018-02-12T19:22:41-05:00September 25th, 2017|Trends in Asset Management, Trends in Human Resources|

Recent events such as the Equifax hack and the breach of the Edgar system, the SEC’s public company files, are not isolated events; this is a new reality. The volume [...]

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Can Business Learn from the Military?

By |2018-02-12T19:22:42-05:00July 17th, 2017|Career Advice, Corporate Culture, How to Get Ahead, Trends in Human Resources|

“All effective leaders are effective leader developers,” says Bernard Banks, retired Brigadier General of the US Army and now X at Kellogg School of Management. Banks noted that upon leaving [...]

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