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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business Review

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. In effect, the pay plan rewarded them for sacrificing the long term.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

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.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

For anyone with a pension linked to market performance, that is a good thing. 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.” “Reframing,” Lakoff tells us, “is social change.”

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