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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

McKinsey has a new study out on an important topic — the question of whether corporations systematically take too short a view and do not invest enough for the long term. I was therefore excited to see that McKinsey had a new empirical study that provides evidence in favor of the view that corporations should take longer views.

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Don’t Let the Numbers Get in the Way of a Good Story

Tom Spencer

There are, of course, heavily analytical cases which use advanced statistics, or proprietary out-of-the-box methodologies which use statistical analysis in the background, such as A/B testing or optimisation problems. There are no statistical analyses to prove whether a ten-year cash flow projection will be correct.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? Case Study: Blue Apron. The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g.,