Author: Jacobs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780071033107
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Americans have a growing conviction that we are losing economic ground to rivals in Europe & Asia. From store shelves to parking lots, the evidence of this competitive decline is abundantly visible. Less apparent are the causes & cures. While pundits point to everything from inadequate public schools to drug abuse as sources of our economic malaise, savvy business practitioners & thoughtful scholars concur that short-term thinking & short-sighted behavior by both corporate managers & investors are at the heart of the problem. In this important book, Michael Jacobs takes a hard look at corporate America & discovers why so few American businesses are managed for the long-term & why so many shareholders have abandoned the virtue of patient capital. He describes attitudes & practices that pit owners & managers of America's corporations against each other, often at the expense of their long-term mutual prosperity, & offers practical measures for curing the problem.

Author: Michael T. Jacobs
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Americans have a growing conviction that we are losing economic ground to rivals in Europe and Asia. Jacobs takes a hard look at corporate America, pinpoints the causes of business myopia, calls for an end to the practices and policies that perpetuate it, and offers provocative but thoughtful proposals for corporate reform.

Author: Harvard Business Review Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780071033978
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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I strongly recommend Michael T. Jacobs's Short-Term America... It is a persuasive & concise argument for how we should correct the problem of impatient capital in this country."--Michael Crichton, Across the Board. "Intelligent & thoughtful... This book should be required reading for anyone who runs anything in America, from the White House to Main Street, from Capitol Hill to Wall Street."--Pat Widder, Chicago Tribune. "Short-Term America is a sober, thoughtful, clear-eyed examination of factors undermining American competitiveness."--Peter Baida, New York Times. In this revolutionary new book, Michael Jacobs takes a hard look at why so few American businesses are managed for the long term & why so many shareholders & lenders have abandoned the virtue of patient capital. He describes practices & regulations that pit owners & managers of America's corporations against each other, often at the expense of their mutual long-term prosperity. Jacobs offers provocative proposals to reform investment practices, corporate governance mechanisms, executive compensation plans, & banking regulations that have brought about the short-termism eroding U.S. competitiveness & creating distant, if not adversarial relationships between capital providers & corporations. "A sophisticated & readable critique of the recent corporate takeover mania."--David Warsh, Boston Globe.

Author: Louis Hyman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Winner of the William G. Bowen Prize Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book Critics Shortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy"--how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the 50s and 60s upended the stability of the workplace and the lives of millions of working men and women in postwar America. Over the last fifty years, job security has cratered as the institutions that insulated us from volatility have been swept aside by a fervent belief in the market. Now every working person in America today asks the same question: how secure is my job? In Temp, Louis Hyman explains how we got to this precarious position and traces the real origins of the gig economy: it was created not by accident, but by choice through a series of deliberate decisions by consultants and CEOs--long before the digital revolution. Uber is not the cause of insecurity and inequality in our country, and neither is the rest of the gig economy. The answer to our growing problems goes deeper than apps, further back than outsourcing and downsizing, and contests the most essential assumptions we have about how our businesses should work. As we make choices about the future, we need to understand our past.

Author: Michael T. Jacobs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875844091
Category : Industrial management
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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In this book Michael Jacobs takes a hard look at why so few American businesses are managed for the long term and why so many shareholders and lenders have abandoned the virtue of patient capital. He describes practices and regulations that pit owners and managers of America's corporations against each other, often at the expense of their mutual long-term prosperity. Jacobs offers provocative proposals to reform investment practices, corporate governance mechanisms, executive compensation plans, and banking regulations that have brought about the short-termism eroding US competitiveness and creating distant, if not adversarial relationships between capital providers and corporations.

Author: J. Mack Stiles
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830822690
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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How can you prepare for a short-term missions trip? What are the hazards to avoid and the opportunities to embrace? Veteran trip leaders Mack and Leeann Stiles offer practical advice, hard-won lessons, and hilarious stories to help you know what to expect as you get ready to see God in action in new ways.

Author: Dennis Carey
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1613631405
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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In Go Long, authors Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel take you behind the scenes to witness the business decisions that are enabling leading organizations to outsmart and outlast the competition.

Author: David D. Schein
Publisher: Post Hill Press
ISBN: 1682615049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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The Decline of America offers a carefully documented analysis of the last seventeen U.S. presidents. These men, eight Democrats and nine Republicans, have shaped the last 100 years, not only for America, but for the world. Each president is profiled with unsparing scrutiny so we can see where it’s all gone wrong. David Schein follows these critiques by proposing ways to improve America’s outlook for the next 100 years—before it’s too late.

Author: Lynn Stout
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1605098167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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An in-depth look at the trouble with shareholder value thinking and at better options for models of corporate purpose. Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to “maximize shareholder value.” In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how shareholder value thinking endangers not only investors but the rest of us as well, leading managers to focus myopically on short-term earnings; discouraging investment and innovation; harming employees, customers, and communities; and causing companies to indulge in reckless, sociopathic, and irresponsible behaviors. And she looks at new models of corporate purpose that better serve the needs of investors, corporations, and society. “A must-read for managers, directors, and policymakers interested in getting America back in the business of creating real value for the long term.” —Constance E. Bagley, professor, Yale School of Management; president, Academy of Legal Studies in Business; and author of Managers and the Legal Environment and Winning Legally “A compelling call for radically changing the way business is done... The Shareholder Value Myth powerfully demonstrates both the dangers of the shareholder value rule and the falseness of its alleged legal necessity.” —Joel Bakan, professor, The University of British Columbia, and author of the book and film The Corporation “Lynn Stout has a keen mind, a sharp pen, and an unbending sense of fearlessness. Her book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the root causes of the current financial calamity.” —Jack Willoughby, senior editor, Barron’s “Lynn Stout offers a new vision of good corporate governance that serves investors, firms, and the American economy.” —Judy Samuelson, executive director, Business and Society Program, The Aspen Institute

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.