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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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Can We Quantify the Value of Connected Devices?

Harvard Business Review

More impressively, by linking all the machines together, they were able to predict — and subsequently improve — overall process reliability and product quality. And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins.