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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

"Creative accounting" is really bad. For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber , where a small, meek accountant stands before the desk of an overfed chief executive exhorting the accountant to rescue the company: "It's up to you now, Miller. So, by definition, creativity is morally neutral.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. Such misplaced optimism potentially masks underinvestment in technology needed to keep up with the competition. Creative accounting measures.

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