Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The oft-cited CEO of Unilever, Paul Polman, announced the company's Sustainable Living Plan , saying to investors: "if you don't buy into [our long-term value model], I respect you as a human being, but don't put your money in our company.". Zeitz is also rolling out the EP&L across the holding group PPR. Breakthrough Institutions.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote. .”

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Earlier this year, I asked a CEO of Fortune 100 company how he dealt with analyst pressure. What he said was this: "I don't know any CEO that would want to run a company the way analysts would want us to.". Nobody writes a paean to the search for 9 percent EPS growth. Moreover, pure growth targets are even wackier right now.

GAAP 8

GAAP Short-term P&L EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. Carl Icahn is at it again. Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

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. Earnings-per-share (EPS) growth: Difference between EPS growth and true earnings growth.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

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.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

I saw this first hand while researching the hiring practices of top-tier investment banks, management consulting firms, and law firms. These organizations, also known as elite professional service (EPS) firms, have some of the most well-developed and longstanding on-campus programs.

EPS 8

EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The Carol he was referring to was Carol Bartz , now of Yahoo, then CEO of Autodesk. I was being asked to be the complementary half: the internal candidate would be the outward-facing VP running the Americas, but I would run the internal operations of the $200M+ business, owning the title "revenues manager." By the CEO.

EPS 15

EPS Strategy Reference Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste. The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

CEOs and their boards almost always believe their company’s shares are undervalued, and rarely have a full understanding of the performance expectations the company must meet to justify its stock price. If the market’s expectations are more bullish than management’s, it’s a clear signal to reject the buyback.

EPS 8

EPS Company Offshoring Price 8