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The Answer to Short-Termism Isn’t Asking Investors to Be Patient

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. stock exchanges in 2002 to identify causation rather than mere correlation. What about innovation? Tim Evans for HBR.

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Understanding the New Battle Over Net Neutrality

Harvard Business Review

These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation. There is widespread agreement among economists that the current open, modular nature of the Internet has stimulated innovation and growth. An open Internet does seem like a good thing.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Doing Things as We Always Have. Those We Bring Upon Ourselves.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

Sweeping reforms by Wall Street and the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) are needed, forcing firms to separate their investment banking business from their stock advisory business. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

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