How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire
Harvard Business Review
MAY 6, 2016
As earnings goals became harder to hit with internal growth, the company used most of its money for share buybacks to achieve its three-year earnings-per-share goals. Facing headwinds to growth, executives delayed R&D and capital investments to hit three-year free-cash-flow goals.
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