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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. What would better measures be?

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What Your Stock Price Is Really Means

Harvard Business Review

Rappaport showed that, in setting a price, the market offers a clear signal that can inform operational and financial decisions. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. Think of this step as determining where the bar is set for a high jumper; you simply want to understand what the market anticipates. More >>.

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