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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

Most of us would say it's exceptionally hard, particularly when power is concentrated in a few incumbent companies with deeply rooted vested interests. The financial crisis is a prime example of too few people holding the reins. Just under 1,000 companies account for half of the world's market capitalization, Eccles notes.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

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. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

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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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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

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. Another example includes and biomimicry—using lessons Nature learned over 3.8 The Moral Frame.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

Cook, In a recent article posted on this website, I criticized Carl Icahn’s call for your company to intensify its stock buybacks. In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994.

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What Would Happen if the U.S. Stopped Requiring Quarterly Earnings Reports?

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, twice yearly reporting would make companies less transparent. In the UK setting, after the imposition of mandatory quarterly reporting we found no change in company investments, measured as capital expenditures on plants, property, equipment, R&D, and intangible assets. were to ban quarterly reporting?

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