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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Investors punish companies with a short-term orientation by applying higher discount rates to them, which increases the cost of capital for those companies. MirageC/Getty Images. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.