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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business

With the best of intentions, many proxy advisors and long-term investors have widely blessed three years as appropriate, adopting three-year pay for performance as their standard comparison. Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure.

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A Refresher on Marketing ROI

Harvard Business

It’s about “delivering customers and sales.” That challenge, however, pales in comparison with the difficulty of measuring incremental financial value. To do this, you need to establish your sales baseline. What would our sales and profits have been if we didn’t spend on this marketing program?

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