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JANUARY 31, 2017

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EPS Groupthink Gordon Learning-by-Doing 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

How can leaders leverage and develop diverse talent in 2014? Sponsors of color who have developed young talent are overall 30% more satisfied with their career progress than those who haven’t built that base of support. Leadership roles are given to those who also look and act the part, who manifest “executive presence” (EP).

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EPS Diversity Innovation Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. And here the signs are encouraging: "The progress in the past year has been frightening," reported Jonathan Jenkins, CEO of the Social Investment Business. Zeitz is also rolling out the EP&L across the holding group PPR.

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EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

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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EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Why isn’t more of that cash going into developing businesses for long-term gains — the big, outsized gains that come from big bets on the future? The normal culprits for short-termism are short-term-minded hedge-fund managers and activist shareholders, as well as CEOs worried about big bet investments with uncertain paybacks.

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Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No. With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS. In Morten T. 2, behind the late Steve Jobs, with an industry-adjusted shareholder return of 12,266% during his tenure.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a recent survey , 70% of respondents said that CEOs focus too much on short-term financial results, and nearly 60% said that they don’t focus enough on positive long-term impact. It’s easy to fault CEOs for being too fixated on the short term. It’s easy to fault CEOs for being too fixated on the short term.

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CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9