Robert Pozen
Robert Pozen
Robert Charles Pozenis an American financial executive with a strong interest in public policy. He is the former chairman of MFS Investment Management, the oldest mutual fund company in the United States. He is also a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
boss needs done
You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.
ohio needs mail
I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
law perspective giving
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.
motivation educational order
If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.
views hurtful looks
We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.
years lasts saws
We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.
running wall people
Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?
relationship desire auditors
Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.
young used productive
I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.
husband important want
If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.
goal priorities achieve
Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.
heart exercise keys
Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.
data people together
I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research.
desserts private talking
We've been talking a lot about the desserts ? private accounts. But not the spinach.