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How Much Should Companies Focus on Earnings vs. Long-Term Growth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Is it even correct for large-company management to focus \u201cover the horizon?\u201d<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">What role do common performance metrics play in guiding company focus and activity?<\/h1>\n<p>A debate that rages in the academic literature is also a constant topic of conversation in the HBS classroom: Should managers, and companies, be investing for the long-term growth of the firm, conceiving of successive generations of new organic or inorganic growth, or should they rather exploit the current core business to its fullest and let investors diversify their bets?\u00a0 Does it depend?\u00a0 And if so, on what?<\/p>\n<p>Further, what clues can you discern from reported performance metrics concerning the quality of a company\u2019s growth planning efforts?\u00a0 Are there any indicators you can spot that reassure you about a company\u2019s long-term prospects?\u00a0 Any that should raise concern?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it even correct for large-company management to focus \u201cover the horizon?\u201d What role do common performance metrics play in guiding company focus and activity? 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