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

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. One milestone might include completion of prototype-level next-generation digital products.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. We're moving towards innovation in technology, pricing, business models and partnerships," explains head of corporate responsibility management, Dorje Mundle, of the company's base-of-the-pyramid operations.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.”

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Challenges of this frame: It is tempting to imagine that such technology will solve all our resource problems, but shoehorning billions of extra people onto the planet must have consequences.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

However, there are two other important groups of people who invest in the corporation without a guaranteed return: Taxpayers , through a wide variety of government agencies charged with spending on physical infrastructure and the nation’s knowledge base , regularly provide productive resources to companies without a guaranteed return.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11