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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. percentage points of GDP growth per year). We calculate that U.S. As noted earlier, if all public U.S.