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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. CEOs from rival firms); conversely not all inside CEOs have it (CEOs promoted from finance). MirageC/Getty Images.