Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

How can leaders leverage and develop diverse talent in 2014? Leaders have long recognized that an inherently diverse workforce “matches the market” and confers a competitive edge by recognizing the unmet needs of consumers and clients like themselves. CTI research spotlights five ways: 1. Be more inclusive. Be a more active ally.

EPS 13

EPS Diversity Innovation Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Just under 1,000 companies account for half of the world's market capitalization, Eccles notes. Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. Breakthrough requires an end to systemic inequities by opening up processes, information - and markets.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For anyone with a pension linked to market performance, that is a good thing. One way to expand your thinking is to look to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, whose time horizon is 2030; think of them as a purchase order from the future. Another example includes and biomimicry—using lessons Nature learned over 3.8

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. When Uncle Wall Street (also known as Mr. Market ) is in a generous mood, Bezos is always ready to take advantage by putting investment ahead of profitability. billion bond issue just before the debt-market meltdown of autumn 2008.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Consider management actions such as cutting jobs and investment as a response to currency fluctuations and the resulting accounting impact of those cuts on earnings per share (EPS). The digital revolution — the “mother of all technology developments”— marks a fork in the road.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. public market capitalization over this period. rate for other companies.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8