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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

. “Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered” (1982), coauthored with Robert Hayes, certainly did that, looking in detail at how manufacturers’ use of “hurdle rates” to judge investment possibilities led to systematic underinvestment in both plants and human capital. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.