article thumbnail

U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” More than half (53%) of Latinas and 44% of Latinos say that EP at their company is defined by conforming to traditionally white, male standards.

EPS 8
article thumbnail

Firms Are Wasting Millions Recruiting on Only a Few Campuses

Harvard Business Review

These organizations, also known as elite professional service (EPS) firms, have some of the most well-developed and longstanding on-campus programs. In the EPS world, on-campus “school lists” have two tiers, based largely on prestige. ” How It Works — and How “Regular” Applicants Get Ignored.

EPS 8
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

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). This post kicks off a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna.

article thumbnail

How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS. As he and two co-authors wrote in 2008 : The emphasis on earnings per share as the primary driver of share price and hence of shareholder value creation, to the exclusion of almost everything else, diverts resources away from investments whose payoff lies beyond the immediate horizon.

article thumbnail

What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

MSV is based on the false assumption that, of all participants in the public corporation, only public shareholders run the risk of receiving no return on their contributions to the firm and therefore only they are entitled to profits if and when they materialize. I disagree with this priority.