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Certainly, one way to become a great leader is to take the example of those who are already in leadership positions.  This detailed and lengthy interview in Leaders Magazine shows great insight into becoming a great leader.  It features Alan Quasha, founder, president and CEO of Quadrant Management.

Learn more about great leadership in this featured article.

In exciting Richemont news, they have recently made an offer to shareholders in NET-A-PORTER Limited to acquire all of the shares in NET-A-PORTER Limited.  At the moment, Richemont holds approximately 33% of the issues share capital of NET-A-PORTER Limited.

The offer includes full support from the NET-A-PORTER senior management and from Ms. Natalie Massenet, the founder of NET-A-PORTER.  She will remain as Executive Chairman of NET-A-PORTER Limited.  NET-A-PORTER Limited owns NET-A-PORTER.com, which is a premier online luxury fashion retailer.  Since the year 2000, they have been serving over 170 countries with collections from over 300 of the world’s leading designers.

The Executive Chairman and CEO of Richemont, where Alan Quasha is a non-executive director, said, “Natalie has created a superb, customer-oriented business at NET-A-PORTER in a relatively short period of time. We welcome her and her team to Richemont and look forward to working with them in the future to ensure NET-APORTER’s continuing success.”

Alan Quasha, President of Quadrant Management Inc. – a global investment management firm – might be interested in business news in China, since that is one of the countries in which his firm has offices.  At present, the country is preparing for its upcoming “Expo Shanghai 2010.”  This is the first time a developed country will experience a World Exposition.  This is welcome news for companies such as the ones Alan Quasha are involved in (Quadrant and Vanterra Capital) since the event is set to give such businesses the opportunity to advance their partnerships with China and the country’s prominent companies.

Global Business Activist Alan Quasha

Given that Quadrant Management – the company Alan Quasha chairs – has offices in America, India, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and China, this exposition, set to last 184 days, could only be good for his business.  As well, it is hoped that such an expo will advance bilateral relations and trade between participating countries.

The American Brain Trauma Foundation, chaired today by philanthropist, Harvard graduate and businessman Alan Quasha, was founded in 1986 by Jamshid Ghajar.  To date, Ghajar has worked at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center as well as director for various medical grants.  These include:  guidelines that receive funding from the US Transportation department, and the Soros Head Injury Initiative in Central and Eastern Europe.

Jamshid Ghajar Working with Alan Quasha

Today, Quasha and Ghajar work alongside each other in their efforts at the Brain Trauma Foundation.  Alan Quasha serves as the foundation’s chair and Ghajar its President.  The two of them (with their team) spend their time researching new ways to deal with head trauma victims to greatly improve the prognosis of those who are recuperating from such injuries.

Given that Alan Quasha has been highly successful in both the world of academia and that of business, he might be a good person from whom to seek career advice.  He has indeed been asked to provide wisdom on this subject in various interviews over the years.  Young people just starting out basically want to ask Quasha, how did you do it?  How did you get to study business and law at Harvard and then go on to be in charge of extremely competitive financial firms, as well as find the time to dedicate to important causes?

Alan Quasha’s Theories for Success

The good news for those interested in potentially following in Quasha’s footsteps is that he believes passion to be the key.  It is no good doing something you don’t enjoy.  The first thing one should consider, is doing “something they’re passionate about.” The wealth aspect has to be a secondary factor.  If one acquiesces financial success from engaging in what they enjoy, then all well and good.  If not, then they need to accept that.  Alan Quasha realizes how important this theory is, and he believes young people will too, especially as they get older as “doing something you really like to do is a great way to fill the time you have.”  Alan Quasha also predicts that the world is beginning to change into a place in which “time is more relevant than money.”

Part of the goals of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is to make available and open to the public thought-provoking and cutting-edge intellectual challenges on the major challenges facing today’s global community. On April 10, 2010 a special event took place at the WCFIA: “Hard Problems in Social Science” brought together some of the world’s most renown experts in multiple disciplines in order to enumerate and discuss what are the world’s hardest unresolved problems in the realm of social science. Included in the special line-up of extraordinary speakers were: Peter S. Bearman of Columbia University; Nick Bostrom of Oxford University; and Susan Carey of Harvard University.

The idea of organizing a discussion around the world’s most unsolvable problems was taken from the famous challenge of the great mathematician David Hilbert. In 1990 Mr. Hilbert picked 23 of the most difficult mathematical problems which are strikingly critical yet still unsolved as a challenge to future generations to find the solutions.

Today’s world of marketing involves more precise targeting with the least possible “waste-advertising” in order to increase sales in the most technologically advanced ways. I-Behavior is a company that has been collecting data on consumer behavior, attributes and attitudes for over ten years and now has access to firmographic data on over 18 million businesses.

Types of businesses included in I-Behavior’s B2B database are companies as large and well-known as Fortune 100 companies, down to many millions of hard-to-find small, but still important, businesses.  I-Behavior, Alan Quasha director, can reach not only one million corporate gift buyers, but also 10,000 educators, building the exact model for your business.

The core business of I-Behavior is cooperative database solutions collected offline. Therefore the people at I-Behavior, including director Alan Quasha, are truly experts at modeling purchase behavior of consumers.

I-Behavior is also able to identify purchasing behavior and attributes of consumers which have proven to be excellent predictors of future purchases.  Marketing experts can use these audiences to reach current customers as well as finding new customers via their premier partners.

I-Behavior divides audiences into two major categories:

1.    Pre-qualified Audiences: The proprietary audience segments at I-Behavior represent groups of consumers that consistently purchase within certain categories, or across a combination of categories.

2.    Custom Audiences: Based on extensive, predictive modeling and analysis of the behavior of consumers, I-Behavior can find attributes and variables which exhibit a strong correlation with the purchase desire of an advertiser’s products, or the predictive response to an offer made. I-Behavior’s team of analysts can work with marketing experts to develop a perfect, custom-made audience for consumers which will provide the best potential for future sales.

What is “Zero-Waste” Advertising? At I-Behavior, where Alan Quasha serves as Director, it is possible to reach the right consumer every time you sent out a marketing message, in other words Zero-Waste Advertising.

Since data and analytics are the business of I-Behavior, they are able to more accurately predict the future purchase behavior of consumers. I-Behavor’s predictive power is based on the exhaustive information collected at I-Behavior about their past purchase behavior.

The effectiveness of I-Behavior’s methodology has been proven over the course of the past 10 years with over 1,700 multi-channel and retail clients, which collectively represent 171 million consumers. Data solutions include the full variety of channels: Email, mobile and website recommendations.

In addition to his many responsibilities with Quadrant Management and Vanterra Capital, Alan Quasha also sits on many boards.  One place where he serves is at Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, a fascinating company based in Geneva, Switzerland.  Mr. Quasha serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Directors.

The Board at Compagnie Financière Richemont SA is comprised of 15 internationally recognized leaders in the business world.  The company has four regional offices in Geneva, Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York, each of which has supportive services for their Maisons.

They directly employ 19,600 people at Richemont, with a vast range of luxury products that are produced in many areas of the world.