Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Lobbying for policy reform isn’t much of an answer, because incumbents generally have the benefit of long-term relationships with government agencies built up over many years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? His biceps were visible under his t-shirt and his short hair was still wet from exercise. “We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Last year there was significant movement by the financial community to push companies to look harder at climate change in particular, but also at other factors that matter to long-term performance, such as LGBT rights, economic inequality, and boardroom diversity. But have the letters made much of a difference?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. In 2016, country and function heads were asked to identify innovation ambassadors for each of the markets we’re in: 80 people senior enough to connect innovation to strategy and make things happen.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. They have to integrate various perspectives and not give algorithms short shrift for lack of understanding them. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Second, there is a time horizon problem: while in some cases increasing wages or selecting suppliers with better labor practices might bring a financial benefit in the long-term, short-term pressures on the business might make business leaders averse to making such investments.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. Kevin Miller , host of the Zig Ziglar Podcast. What is that!?”

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. Classroom-based training is, after all, typically easier and less expensive to implement; it’s evidence of short-term thinking, rather than long-term investment in the leadership pipeline. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a recent survey , 70% of respondents said that CEOs focus too much on short-term financial results, and nearly 60% said that they don’t focus enough on positive long-term impact. These findings mirror the growing chorus of voices in business and academia that point to short-termism as being a major threat to business.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Through culture, organizations are able to establish and manage their sustainability goals such as social impact, environmental footprint, employee engagement, satisfaction, etc. PMI corporate culture identifies the need for employers to seek long-term achievements while proposing corporate goals and objectives. .

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Some are short-term, others stretch into an imagined future. A 2016 HBR Analytics survey of 385 managers revealed that most executives were frustrated with planning because they believed that speed was important and that plans frequently changed anyway. The Fayol legacy lingers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. In today’s parlance, firms have to exploit their established sources of advantage (to make profits today) while also exploring for new sources of advantage (to ensure their long-term viability). Firms create value by taking a long-term perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020. As it turned out, providers blew past that milestone as early as 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. In fact they are always greatest over the long-term, while the costs are concentrated in the near-term.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. The losses of U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

As banks rush to digitize their operations , many have found that closing their local branches can help maintain a high return on an otherwise pricy transformation. European banks, for example, closed over 9,000 branches in 2016, which represents a 4.6% Veronica Grech/Getty Images. reduction in a single year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Insightfully, the United Nations is aiming to change this, with UN Sustainable Development Goal #16 , Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, aiming to “provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030.” ” Since the 2009 launch of bitcoin, the short and somewhat shaky answer has been cryptocurrencies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

physicians working as locum tenens has risen steadily from an estimated 26,000 physicians in 2002 to 48,000 physicians in 2016, or approximately 5% of the physician workforce. pneumonia, heart failure, shortness of breath) between 2009 and 2014. Overall, our analysis included approximately 1.82

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

They are not sitting idly by — in 2016, corporate venture arms spent approximately $25 billion globally on more than 1,350 startup investments (excluding direct, strategic investments), a compound annual growth rate of 25% from 2012, according to CB Insights. Unfortunately, these investments are unlikely to yield meaningful benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then came 2016. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. For most of 2016, the world moved quickly on climate. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards.

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