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Firms Are Wasting Millions Recruiting on Only a Few Campuses

Harvard Business Review

These organizations, also known as elite professional service (EPS) firms, have some of the most well-developed and longstanding on-campus programs. In the EPS world, on-campus “school lists” have two tiers, based largely on prestige. ” How It Works — and How “Regular” Applicants Get Ignored.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

The quickest way to spring the short-term trap is to set overly ambitious targets — the kind that make the CEO a hero with investors in the short term, but threaten the long-term plan by, for instance, skimping on scheduled maintenance, cutting R&D investment, and shrinking travel and training budgets.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

One way to expand your thinking is to look to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, whose time horizon is 2030; think of them as a purchase order from the future. Challenges of this frame: Successful business leaders must evolve a much more expansive view of time, no easy task.

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