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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

The purpose includes creating value for customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly with suppliers, and supporting the communities where corporations operate. Inequity and discrimination result from failure, one person at a time, one action at a time (Greenleaf, 2008). This question is not just about changing but thriving.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Since 1994, Dow has invested nearly $2 billion in improving resource efficiency and has saved $9.8

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

We came to this hypothesis in part due to early research by Gina Venolia, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research , who conducted a 2008 study that examined the special problems faced by remote teammates at Microsoft. Additionally, meetings were more efficient, with a slightly shorter duration of.77 77 hours compared to.85

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

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