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Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

Harvard Business Review

Not surprisingly, some investors would seek to benefit from the combination of lower transaction costs and opportunity to make money from the fluctuations in prices. Moreover, I fail to see any argument why such short-term traders, by themselves, destroy value for the economy as a whole.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy.

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Rethinking Valuation So You Don't Miss a Good Deal

Harvard Business Review

The other is a process called Opportunity Engineering (OE) that instills a different way to look at value. Horizon 1 (H1) represents the current core operations of a company that produce the cash flow needed to sustain operations, to meet investor expectations, and to invest in future growth. Alexander B.

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What Shareholder Value is Really About

Harvard Business Review

Critics imply that managing for shareholder value is all about maximizing the short-term stock price. Companies that manage for shareholder value, the thinking goes, do whatever it takes to engineer an ever-higher market price. The objective is to build value and then let the price reflect that value.

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Warren Buffett's 2010 Shareholder Letter: What to Expect

Harvard Business Review

Establish "an unbending standard of performance" : Since 1965, Buffett has annually compared Berkshire's compounded growth in book value per share to the growth in the S&P 500 (plus dividends). But why compare apples (book value) to oranges (share price and dividends)? In all but seven of these 45 years, Berkshire beat the S&P.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. These value-increasing actions are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but it is likely that certain firms emphasize some of the actions more than others. (We

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