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What If Investors Who Held Their Shares Longer Got More Voting Power?

Harvard Business Review

.” Laying out their data, they find that long-term oriented companies create more financial value and more jobs. I agree with their vision of a future in which more companies focus on the long term and become more productive for the world (their findings accord with my own work on the dangers of short-termism ).

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season. But that is far from true. ” A Review of Relevant Studies.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect. Mexico and Brazil alone account for over 60% of Latin America’s GDP and most regional revenue for multinationals. Multinational companies should pressure-test 2018 sales targets and currency hedging against this scenario.

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How to Help Cyprus Help Itself

Harvard Business Review

This creates a vicious cycle, as the less borrowers are able to pay, the tougher the repayment terms get. Let's suppose that Cyprus' average GDP growth rate is 4% and that the fixed interest rate on their rescue loan is 3%. But if after, say, 10 years, GDP growth were to hit 7%, the bondholders would receive 6%.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

Jana Partners, the activist hedge fund, isn’t known as a tree-hugging hippie sort of firm. And Mark Zuckerberg told investors that Facebook would be making changes to its platform that would help users in the long-term, even though, he warned, in the short-term the result would be users spending less time on it.

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Making the Choice Between Money and Meaning

Harvard Business Review

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? Let me put that in real-world terms. Remind me: why is an average investment banker worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? Can it be resolved?

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Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything?

Harvard Business Review

In short, I see an outcomes gap: a yawning chasm the size of the Grand Canyon between what our economy produces and what you might call a meaningfully well-lived life, what the ancient Greeks called eudaimonia. Better, not just more. Becoming, not just being.

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