Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

According to one former employee, “Management made it clear that no employee was allowed to complain about the unethical practices that were going on within the branch.”. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. CEO John Stumpf set the tone.

Competitive Advantage 102

Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 102

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2024

With the cost of capital back to normal levels, it’s simply irresponsible not to make it a management discipline that changes the way you do business. That staggering difference attests not just to the value created by managing with economic profit, but also to the value squandered by ignoring it.

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EPS Cost of Capital Strategy Cost 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

within large corporations) identified when asked what contributed to, or detracted from, "executive presence" (EP) at their firm. Indeed, half the women surveyed and 37% of the men considered appearance and EP to be intrinsically linked; they understood that if you don't look the part of a leader, you're not likely to be given the role.

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EPS Banking Handbook Micromanagement 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. On the surface, this measure looks reasonable.

EPS 12

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Nobody writes a paean to the search for 9 percent EPS growth. It's a strategic and operational straight-jacket. Wouldn't it be more personally rewarding for them — and all the layers of management beneath them — to build and lead fundamentally more profitable organizations (versus maximizing short-term profits)?

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GAAP Short-term P&L EPS 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009.

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CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A friend of mine, Godfrey Sullivan , asked me to consider running the operations for the Americas unit at Autodesk. I was being asked to be the complementary half: the internal candidate would be the outward-facing VP running the Americas, but I would run the internal operations of the $200M+ business, owning the title "revenues manager."

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EPS Strategy Reference Execution 17