Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Creative accounting measures.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Our accustomed modes of thinking are straitjackets constraining the human energy and creativity these tools could unleash. Consider management actions such as cutting jobs and investment as a response to currency fluctuations and the resulting accounting impact of those cuts on earnings per share (EPS).

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A friend of mine, Godfrey Sullivan , asked me to consider running the operations for the Americas unit at Autodesk. I was being asked to be the complementary half: the internal candidate would be the outward-facing VP running the Americas, but I would run the internal operations of the $200M+ business, owning the title "revenues manager."

EPS 15

EPS Strategy Reference Execution 15