Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Have a Medium-Term Goal, and Stick to It. When you drew up your business plan, it’s pretty much a given that you set a range of short and long-term goals, but what about medium-term ones? Set yourself some medium-term goals, and stick to them! Think About Finances.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

To many, the obvious candidate for measuring corporate performance is share price. A generation of economists, finance theorists, business school professors, and would-be governance experts has embraced the notion that companies exist only to maximize "shareholder value.". In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. Embracing the long-term view. There are two reasons for this.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In my latest book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism can Learn from the NFL , I wrote about the negative impact of executive stock-based compensation on corporate short-termism. Eliminating stock-based compensation would help reduce the incentive for executive leadership to focus on the short term.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. Consider, for example, the debate around the pricing of new Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) therapies. rawpixel/Getty Images. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

There is, however, a big barrier standing in the way of the movement's triumph, Nocera writes: Measuring chief executives on the basis of their companies' stock prices is easy to understand — that was always part of its appeal. Over shorter periods, though, stock price movements usually convey more noise than signal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

The common thread is that today''s model of capitalism overemphasizes short-term financial data and neglects information that gets at the true sources of sustainable value creation — things like innovation, brand equity, customer loyalty, and key stakeholder relationships. However, the new framework gets us closer to that goal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. Another problem we’ve seen is that some providers, seeking to fit in to a payment cycle, focus on short-term results, losing sight of the end goals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For chief executives and other senior leaders, it is not unusual for 60-80% of their pay to be tied to performance – whether performance is measured by quarterly earnings, stock prices, or something else. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We still believe the executives at Tejon Ranch made some mistakes, as did we, but our biggest collective mistake was thinking in terms of threats rather than opportunities. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Activists are significant shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. The problem is that nobody's ever really been able to answer which shareholders, when?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in. When competitors entered the market and customers became more price-sensitive, sales growth slowed, and the value that salespeople added no longer justified their pay level. Your R&D group develops a unique new product. Manufacturing produces it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You either achieve your goals or you don't. After all, positive results attract investors, raise stock prices, reinforce customers, draw talent, and more. But only athletic events produce clear winners and losers in the short-term — and most organizations are not actively engaged in those.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Three people die every minute from tuberculosis — a treatable and largely preventable disease.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Having some cash on the side and wanting them to produce more in the long term is usually a great idea. Reflect on your goals and make the best decision depending on the time, energy, money, and skills you are willing to give to this investment venture. Such services require minimum efforts from your part, but they do not come cheap.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

If its stock price continues to slide downward, the story will probably be that investors are losing patience with Amazon’s persistently low profit margins. Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. Finance Internet Retail'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

With a record $2 trillion in cash and short-term liquid assets on hand, U.S. This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Yet, investors price Alphabet’s Class C stock, which carries no voting rights, almost no differently than Alphabet’s Class B stock, which carries voting rights. Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

This allows firms to build long-term, profitable relationships with customers – seemingly the perfect solution to the era of digital disruption. Subscription is a pricing structure. Successful membership businesses focus on the long-term relationship. In building a formal long-term relationship, trust is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. Her teaching benefits didn’t cover short-term disability. ” To assess their situation, Steve and his wife looked into apartment rental prices and cost-of-living data for the cities where he applied to graduate school. Dependable.

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Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Insightfully, the United Nations is aiming to change this, with UN Sustainable Development Goal #16 , Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, aiming to “provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030.” ” Since the 2009 launch of bitcoin, the short and somewhat shaky answer has been cryptocurrencies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Crucially, he concludes that our unconscious mental frames “shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions.” Challenges of this frame: Be wary of pricing everything that moves in the environment and focusing too much on costs. The Moral Frame.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). Another piece of advice is to set measurable goals. Jennifer Radke Understand the needs and goals of your audience, not the business goals. It grows sales.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

This short paper outlines how climate is “already costing local economies billions” and describes how hundreds of billions of property are at risk. And China took serious action, setting a cap on coal emissions by 2020 , which will help it reach the goals of the carbon agreement with the U.S. (a In the U.S.,

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years, I have heard from plenty of managers who have lamented that the pressure of quarterly earnings targets imposes a heavy toll on their ability to focus on the long term. Hence, getting rid of quarterly reporting is unlikely to mitigate corporate short-termism. Frequent reporting increases analysts’ accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Tariffs not only restrict global corporations’ access to consumers around the world but also drive up production costs, as the price of imported components increases. Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient.

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Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., And he was considered an expert!

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