Creativity EPS Innovation Marketing 
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 3, 2016
Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. In fact, WB does have a history of innovation. When Robert Iger, Disney chair and CEO, purchased Pixar for $7.4
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2017
If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. What if concentrated market power of a few companies in an industry has made these companies more profitable than usual?
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 7, 2015
Our accustomed modes of thinking are straitjackets constraining the human energy and creativity these tools could unleash. Consider management actions such as cutting jobs and investment as a response to currency fluctuations and the resulting accounting impact of those cuts on earnings per share (EPS).
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 20, 2014
In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 17, 2011
I'm sure I asked this next question in the kind of holier-than-thou voice that only a 20-something can conjure: Why would I shift my career from Apple and GoLive (a hot web authoring software) to CAD, where innovation levels and growth were single digit? Why don't you just come talk to Carol? It only took me an hour to decide.
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