Great investment ideas are useless without stakeholder buy-in
Margaret Chen · Margaret Chen – Leadership and Outsourcing the Investment Office (Capital Allocators, EP.35) · Jan 1, 2018 · at 11:20
Margaret Chen, Head of CA Capital Management at Cambridge Associates, reflects on how management consulting skills apply to institutional investment consulting.
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“Management consulting is actually excellent for process and being able to take a institution or a group of people through a decision, you know, and so, Advocating for a recommendation. Those are really important skills because you have, you can have the most fabulous ideas, but if no one buys into it doesn't matter.”
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