Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

As their personal finances shored up, professionals I surveyed yearned for more control over their lives. In 2005, an investment banker was asked to lead a small team in (now) rapidly growing Latin America. Research shows (PDF) that regret can be a powerful catalyst for change, far outweighing the short-term emotional downsides.

Career 10

Career Golden Handcuff Short-term CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In their piece, they observe the following: In the short term, however, the current team might actually outperform in the absence of its mercurial and stubborn mentor. Well, Burrows was converted to the stores, at least: in a glowing 2005 piece, he professed that Apple had discovered what surely must be the future of retail.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

From a practical perspective, removing the guidance changed nothing in terms of employer responsibilities — the law is still the law. of employment in 2005 to 9.6% A recent USA Today investigative report on short haul truckers working in the busy ports of Southern California illustrates this in stark terms.

Document 13

Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. treating suppliers as partners).

CEO 12

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Pharmaceuticals. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. If everyone were wholly rational in their long-term self-interest, there would be no political biases.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12