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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. This is a situation that cannot endure.