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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. We calculate that U.S.

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Do We Need A Recruitment Agency For Robots?

The Horizons Tracker

In PPP terms, the US invested $86 billion in 2015, which is roughly 62 times the amount invested in the UK in the same period. The US leads the way, investing heavily in robotics and automation. By contrast, the UK languishes behind peers such as Japan, Germany and the US.

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