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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. Consider three examples.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

The financial crisis is a prime example of too few people holding the reins. For example, the rapidly evolving field of biomimicry examines nature's models and processes to help solve human problems. Perhaps surprisingly, two leading examples come from pharmaceutical companies. Breakthrough Science.

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