Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

CEO John Stumpf set the tone. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. He attributed that to a preference for “Minnesota Nice.”

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 92

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.

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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. It's a strategic and operational straight-jacket.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A friend of mine, Godfrey Sullivan , asked me to consider running the operations for the Americas unit at Autodesk. The Carol he was referring to was Carol Bartz , now of Yahoo, then CEO of Autodesk. By the CEO. A seriously ass-kicking CEO. Here's what happened. Only sheer politeness kept me from hanging up.

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EPS Strategy Reference Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. 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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic.

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