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

Harvard Business Review

What if concentrated market power of a few companies in an industry has made these companies more profitable than usual? I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation. Creative accounting measures.

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Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

Harvard Business Review

The power of redistributing power came home to Whitehurst (and his fellow Delta alum Jackie Yeaney, head of strategy and marketing at Red Hat) in the course of introducing a formal strategic planning process to the fast-growing company. Just as important, those plans were never handed back up the chain of command for "final answers."

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