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Why Mentoring Matters

Mills Scofield

Hello Deb, The EP [Entrepreneur Program] leaders would like to thank you again for speaking to us at Ben and Jerry's. Joseph: " Dear Deb, Thank you for giving EP members an opportunity to hear you speak. Sabrina Yu Brown University, Class of 2015. They are our future! We also have something to say to you. Best regards,".

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Strong Dollar, Weak Thinking

Harvard Business Review

This puts downward pressure on stock prices because with lower EPS growth, shareholder expectations of future growth drop, lowering EPS multiples and hence stock prices. At that point, Wall Street will dance for joy because EPS will grow from its lowered base. Actually, it is relatively easy.

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

During a six-month period from December 2015 to May 2016 , Disney has cleaned the clock with a 25% market share in box office with Star Wars sequel, the Jungle Book , and Captain America: Civil War. WB’s revenue dropped 13% in fourth quarter 2015. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

Apple’s stated intention was to carry out this $130 billion distribution of corporate cash to Apple shareholders between August 2012 and December 2015. Whether done as a DOMR or ASR, the purpose of such buybacks is to give manipulative boosts to a company’s earnings per share (EPS) to help drive up its stock price.

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

And 2015 is looking even better, with R&D investment at the highest level (as a percentage of GDP) in the history of America. For many, buybacks are an explicit, ongoing part of their EPS growth formula (for example, 5% from organic growth, plus 3% from acquisitions, plus 2% from stock buybacks equals the desired double-digit EPS number).

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

Consider management actions such as cutting jobs and investment as a response to currency fluctuations and the resulting accounting impact of those cuts on earnings per share (EPS). This post kicks off a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna.

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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. Earnings-per-share (EPS) growth: Difference between EPS growth and true earnings growth. Quarterly targeting: Incidence of beating or missing EPS targets by less than two cents.