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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

Moving up in an organization depends on looking and acting like a leader, on being perceived as having “executive presence” (EP). According to research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), EP constitutes 26% of what senior leaders say it takes to get to the next promotion.

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

A few years later, Iger made another successful deal to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in 2009. Iger announced that in the first quarter of this year , Disney “delivered the highest quarterly earnings in the history of our company, marking our 10 th consecutive quarter of double-digit EPS growth.”

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

Those in Clinton’s camp include the venerable Aspen Institute, which produced a 2009 call to arms arguing that corporations’ short-term objectives corrode the “foundation of the American free enterprise system.” years in 2009. ” A Review of Relevant Studies. years in 2002 to 7.2 years in 2014.

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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

And while it has certainly burned many buyers of Amazon shares through the years — Amazon's stock price took a decade to get back to its 2009 peak — the long-run returns have been spectacular. With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS. In Morten T.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Earnings-per-share (EPS) growth: Difference between EPS growth and true earnings growth. We hypothesize that long-term companies are less likely to overindex on analyst metrics like EPS and less likely to consistently take actions (such as share repurchases) that boost EPS.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009. ” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS. . Bertolini knew that such unrealistic targets would create problems.

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