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
country party ideas
America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.
jobs people important
The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.
goal priorities achieve
Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.
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.
young used productive
I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.
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.
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?
years lasts saws
We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
law long research
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.