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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business Review

Why isn’t more of that cash going into developing businesses for long-term gains — the big, outsized gains that come from big bets on the future? This is a classic story of unintended consequences — inadvertently short-circuiting long-term management — to the detriment of companies, investors, and the economy.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. We're moving towards innovation in technology, pricing, business models and partnerships," explains head of corporate responsibility management, Dorje Mundle, of the company's base-of-the-pyramid operations.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

” Keeping it simple, with five core strategies in his long-term plan, helped people remember his message. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009. . The company’s stated purpose is to “help people walk through walls.”

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Crucially, he concludes that our unconscious mental frames “shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions.” , has shown how the way we frame such challenges shapes our reasoning and priorities much more than most of us recognize.

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