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

Harvard Business Review

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” ” Laying out their data, they find that long-term oriented companies create more financial value and more jobs. The Refresher: Net Present Value.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk. One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.) Sound familiar?