You typically hear from us every month or two on recent IP, client observations, and industry insights. During this unique time, we are sharing a more diverse set of content that is helpful to those managing through volatility, working from home, or just connecting. Our Tuesday TouchPoints series shares thinking from various HPA leaders on what the health crisis means to you in education, finance, retail, strategy, and everyday life.
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- Wealth & Asset Management Post-Pandemic: What Sticks & How to Thrive – by Peter Fisher
HPA Project Leader Peter Fisher reflects on three uncertain dynamics influencing the future path for Wealth & Asset Management, identifying drivers of change, predicting which changes will be permanent, and offering advice for leaders on how to adapt and thrive in the new environment.
- Emerging Power Dynamics Between Employers & Employees – by Richard Berger
HPA Partner Richard Berger explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has forced positive workplace changes for many workers, shifting the employer-employee power balance and acting as a catalyst for long-needed improvements in work/life balance. Richard also examines the effects of the pandemic on our most vulnerable (essential) workers, who are perhaps the most impacted and yet the least protected.
HPA Senior Advisor Katie Liebel shares insights for both consumers and insurance carriers alike, given the unprecedented and ongoing global pandemic.
- Holding White Male Executives Accountable for Diversity and Inclusion – by Alex Nesbitt
HPA Senior Advisor Alex Nesbitt has a challenge for white men in leadership: Hold yourself and those who work for you accountable for becoming active participants in making diversity happen.
- Define Digital Transformation for Your Company – by Carlson Choi
HPA Team Leader Carlson Choi outlines five questions to ask at the start of a digital transformation – and offers insight on the best path forward.
- Why I’m Cautiously Optimistic about the COVID-19 Vaccine – by Derrell Porter
Following up to our 2020 Q&A on COVID-19, HPA consultant Derrell Porter, M.D. shares his cautiously optimistic outlook on vaccine rollout and the challenges facing the effort.
- Doing the Right Thing: Survival isn’t Enough – by John King
HPA Consultant John King discusses customer value mid-pandemic: survival is not enough; rather, businesses still need to plan their value proposition and corresponding growth proactively.
- 3 Ways 2021 (and Beyond) Will Be Different – by Richard Berger
HPA Partner Richard Berger reflects on the lasting changes wrought by the events of 2020, and shares predictions for how business (and life) will remain forever changed.
- A Retail Guide to Navigating an Unprecedented Holiday Season – by Abhinav Chandra
HPA Consultant Abhinav Chandra shares insights on how fashion retailers and brands will need to adapt to survive the holiday season in a post-COVID world.
HPA Consultant John King discusses the benefits of virtualization for the long haul, and the surprising ways in which your organization might thrive in a remote environment.
- Musings of a Fallible Leader: Corporate Leadership in the Pandemic – by Justin Moser
HPA COO Justin Moser reflects on the challenges of corporate leadership mid-pandemic, and outlines four timeless principles.
- March (to October) Madness – by Sumeet Goel
HPA Founder & Managing Director Sumeet Goel reflects on the past six months, and shares his thoughts on how we can work together to come out of this global crisis in our best possible place.
- Managing the Whipsaw: Planning for the Next Normal – by Alex Nesbitt
HPA Senior Advisor Alex Nesbitt suggests we borrow three practices from supply chain organizations for managing through volatility as we look ahead.
- How Strategy Development Changes in a Downturn – by Justin Moser
HPA COO Justin Moser discusses six key shifts in thinking that are key to managing in the midst of a downturn.
- 90 Days Later: Tuesday TouchPoints in Review – by Sumeet Goel
HPA Founder & Managing Director Sumeet Goel looks back on our Tuesday TouchPoints series with an insightful reflection on the last 90 days, and perspectives on the new normal.
Our Q&A with HPA Advisor and biopharmaceutical expert Derrell Porter, M.D. looks not only at COVID-19, testing, and possible treatments and vaccines, but also highlights the intersection of healthcare with racial equality, and how those issues are at play in the fight against the virus.
- Building a Social Impact Strategy for COVID-19 and Beyond – by Mark Feldman
How can companies activate meaningful social impact during COVID-19, and longer-term? Mark Feldman, Founder & Managing Director of Cause Consulting, discusses this important question and outlines six considerations.
- Rising to the Occasion: New Normals for Retail – by Meka Millstone-Shroff
Meka Millstone-Shroff, retail executive with over 20 years of experience growing consumer-facing businesses, examines the emerging trends retailers need to adopt – and those they’ll need to let go of – in order to survive shifting consumer needs and evolving safety requirements.
- Banking on a Better Position After the Crisis – by Katie Liebel
HPA Advisor Katie Liebel shares how both bank customers and banking providers can use the current financial disruption to better position themselves for the long-term, outlining four opportunities for retail banking anchored in the perspective of both the consumer and the banker
- Wealth / Asset Management: Fast-Forward Your New Business Model Now – by Peter Fisher
HPA Project Leader Peter Fisher outlines implications for wealth and asset managers, and explains how companies must rapidly shift priorities and pursue emerging opportunities in the “new” landscape
- The Crisis calls for Adjustments to your Fintech & Insurtech Strategy – by Luiz Zorzella
HPA Consultant Luiz Zorzella explains why and how banks, insurance companies and investment companies should quickly revisit their fintech strategy in today’s rapidly evolving ecosystem in order to strengthen their position in key markets
- Berkshire Hathaway Week – Influencer Takeaways – by Sumeet Goel
HPA Founder Sumeet Goel shares insights from influencers ranging from a psychologist and NYT best-selling author, a Princeton University Dean, the Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the NBA, longtime CEO and Chairman of Graham Holdings (formerly the Washington Post Company), and the Founder and CEO of Collaborative Gain, all in the context of our COVID world and the annual Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting.
- Rethinking Enterprise-wide Initiatives in a Disrupted Market – by Chris Fox
HighPoint Senior Advisor Chris Fox discusses how to deal with enterprise-wide initiatives in the context of this pandemic, and recommends companies move faster and reimagine how things are done.
- Lessons from the Cannonball Run: Get Moving! – by Sumeet Goel
Founder & Managing Director Sumeet Goel discusses the need to Get Moving and accelerate your preparedness for the future new normal, in the face of crisis.
- Maintaining Customer Relationships in a Time of Crisis – by Robbie Kellman Baxter
HPA Advisor, strategy consultant and author Robbie Kellman Baxter discusses the importance of focusing on long term customer relationships and predictable, recurring revenue for survival in a time of crisis.
- Food in the Time of Coronavirus – by Meredith Sandland
HPA Advisor Meredith Sandland shares insight on current obstacles facing the Food & Beverage industry, explaining how we as consumers can help, and predictions on the lasting influence COVID-19 is likely to have as the industry faces major disruption.
- My New Job – by Tim DeRoche
Where will the education system go from here? HPA Consultant Tim DeRoche shares his industry insight and personal experience, outlining some of the current major issues at play for schools and educators and predictions for longer term impacts across the broader education industry.
- Planning and Prep: Creating Work From Home Success – by Bob Kaplan
HPA Senior Advisor Bob Kaplan shares his personal framework for a successful virtual office space, and simple but meaningful ways to avoid common frustrations.
- How Strategy Development Changes in a Downturn – by Justin Moser
HPA COO Justin Moser discusses six key shifts in thinking that are key to managing in the midst of a downturn.
- What to Watch at Home – by Sumeet Goel
HPA Founder Sumeet Goel contributes to the dialogue on how to cope with COVID-19 with his Peak TV recommendations.
