Rajesh Setty

MARCH 30, 2011

Just the chapter alone on “Feed Your Mind Good Stuff” is worth the price of the book and more. When I was an Engineering student, one of my teachers who used to teach us about computers told me about a term GIGO (Garbage-In-Garbage-Out) – referring to the way computers process things. Today We Are Rich is a gem of a book.

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Short-term Long-term Open-book Fashion 35

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). This pessimistic stance stems primarily from the lower sales of ethical brands. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

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Ethics Marketing Brand Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

This scandal isn't about price-fixing. It is, in short, about you and I, and the places we seek for ourselves in the world. Let me couch this for you in the pedestrian terms of financial hydraulics — the tawdry terms which seem to substitute for thinking in what's become of our thin, shallow economic and political discourse.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

A recent report by the Aspen Institute [ PDF ] suggests a big part of the problem with corporations' focus on the short term is shareholders themselves. Shareholder value, in turn, is typically measure by share price — meaning share price today, not share price next week or next decade.

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Long-term Hedge Strategy Short-term 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

How is the role of the salesperson changing, and what’s changing in terms of which sales channels are being used right now? Authenticity is not a specific characteristic – it is derived from the ethical, honest, and consistent actions of your total words and deeds. How about sales channels? as ways of selling. How does that work best?

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Globalization Mission Statement Human Capital Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. In budgeting for and pricing consulting services, budget for consulting at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10 percent of gross sales. This does not include marketing, which should be another 10 percent.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

To many, the obvious candidate for measuring corporate performance is share price. Some want to hold their shares for only a short time and care only about tomorrow's stock price. Others are investing for retirement or to pay for a child's college tuition, and care about long-term returns.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Does stock price accurately reflect intrinsic value? How does the concept help business people make critical trade-offs between short and long term or between competing, legitimate concerns of stakeholders — employees, suppliers, customers and shareowners? Apple has paid no dividends since 1995. It hasn't used leverage.

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Short-term Rogers Long-term Price 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. The brand may continue to prosper financially, but until it gets its external perception in line, it faces obstacles in the long-term.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The “ accelerated recognition of commercial income and delayed accrual of costs” undoubtedly flatters short-term results, but it soon catches up with you, as four suspended senior executives have found out. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. Everyone shops at Aldi.

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 12

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

These pointers are suggested in budgeting for and pricing services : Budget for training at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10% of gross sales. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Determine their abilities to collaborate and interrelate with other consultants.

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

As a result, workers are less productive, less healthy, even less ethical. In the short term, this will likely mean a pay increase for newly eligible workers, at least on an hourly basis. But research suggests that over time firms will lower salaries in order to get the same amount of work at the same price.

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Long-term Short-term Retail Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article in January's HBR tries to advance our world's shared values by arguing that doing right is the best long-term business strategy. They would also see that generous and effective employee health programs result in healthier profits long-term. But how about where it's not so clearly win-win?

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Porter Morale Supply Chain Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

According to its annual report, those include financial metrics such as “attributable profit; underlying EBIT (earnings before interest and taxation); and total shareholder return (share price and dividends which are assumed to be reinvested).” ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective.

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TSR Banking Committee Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

If the analyst didn't like the fact that this might constrain profits in the short term, he could sell the stock. George Zimmer, founder of The Men's Wearhouse, the chain that sells off-priced tailored men's clothing, talks about values, mind-set, and the company's unique organizational culture even if it makes analysts nervous.

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CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Zaleznik chronicled how he saw American managers, influenced by the rising popularity of the human relations school, turn increasingly from the substantive work of organizations — creating products and services, cultivating markets, pleasing customers, cutting costs, and getting stuff done — to what he termed "psychopolitics."

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Management Cooper Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

But he rationalized those actions in his mind at the time, because the result was higher leverage, a higher return on equity, and a higher stock price. Fastow suggested that to avoid falling into an ethical trap he should have asked himself the right questions: Am I only following the rules or am I following the principles?

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Chief Financial Officer Finance Banking Class 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Instead, the regulatory filing simply listed, in summary fashion, “factors” supporting the raise, without any analysis elsewhere: JPM’s long-term performance; gains in market share and customer satisfaction; resolution of regulatory issues; improved control structures and processes; and leadership improvements. Boards Ethics Leadership'

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Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The insight behind Zipcar comes from an analysis of three fundamental trends: increasing urban densities, the growing preference for convenience in a time-scarce world, and a growing green ethic. One final note: managers should remember that BEMIs will rarely lead to a surge in revenues and profits over the short term.

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Trends Short-term Resistance Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

This loosening of long-term bonds has brought more uncertainty to all workers, and more freedom to a fortunate few. Seen as a ticket to thrive in a mobile job market, “talent” is an ever more valuable label, and devotion to work is that ticket’s price. I (Over) Work Therefore I Am.

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Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Even in one of the most market-oriented societies in human history, it appears very difficult to make most people appreciate that ethical and profitable business practices do not fundamentally conflict. In short, they provide little insight into the task of value creation. But anti-profit beliefs are short-sighted. Our research.

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Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This point was underscored by Unilever CEO Paul Polman when he courageously told short-term investors who did not support sustainability efforts not to buy his company’s shares. Challenges of this frame: Be wary of pricing everything that moves in the environment and focusing too much on costs.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Walmart wants customers to know them for low prices, Singapore Airlines customers know them for customer connectivity, Apple customers perceive innovation and Fed Ex customers expect speed. They were clear that they wanted a customer value proposition emphasizing customer connectivity rather than lowest price.

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Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In extolling his own work ethic, President Donald Trump notes : “Don’t sleep any more than you have to. But it is also a mirage; you may be able to complete more tasks, at least in the short term. In simple terms, caffeine blocks the signals that tell our brains we need sleep. That’s simple math.

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Short-term How To Long-term Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Sharing this fact may lead the candidate to use it to gain an edge in the negotiations about the terms of the job (e.g., My assistant narrowed these down to a short list of 10, each of whom has excellent credentials, skills, and experience.” The negotiations focused on just one issue: the price of the object up for sale (e.g.,

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Participative Norton Short-term Ethics 15