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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

As Ashoka CEO Bill Drayton told us, the ongoing shift in our economies means we must abandon institutions where a few people tell "everyone else how to repeat together efficiently, be it a law firm or an assembly line, a world characterized by a limited and vertical nervous system." Breakthrough Finance.

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What Would Happen if the U.S. Stopped Requiring Quarterly Earnings Reports?

Harvard Business Review

The crux of the issue is how to allow companies to balance the long-term goal of making productive investments without getting bogged down by short-term quarterly pressures. Those discussions need to become more common, regardless of whether companies report quarterly or twice a year.

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