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What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

What we asked people was, at this point in their lives, are they actively building, maintaining, or depleting their tangible and intangible assets? Actively building both tangible and intangible assets is crucial to creating a long and productive working life. Over 10,000 people completed it.

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The Case for Stock Buybacks

Harvard Business Review

Conventional wisdom is that CEOs buy back stock to manipulate the short-term stock price. They fund the buyback by cutting investment, and so firm value suffers in the long-term. Moreover, the claim that buybacks weaken companies long-term isn’t borne out by the data. over the next four years. to $0.88.

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

Harvard Business Review

Over the years, I have heard from plenty of managers who have lamented that the pressure of quarterly earnings targets imposes a heavy toll on their ability to focus on the long term. Opponents fear that banning quarterly reporting will not stimulate long-run investments nor will it end earnings management.

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