Bob Pozen » Harvard Business Review http://bobpozen.com Mon, 17 May 2010 19:29:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Can We Break the Tyranny of Quarterly Results? [HBR] http://bobpozen.com/2009/10/can-we-break-the-tyranny-of-quarterly-results-hbr/ http://bobpozen.com/2009/10/can-we-break-the-tyranny-of-quarterly-results-hbr/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:58:28 +0000 Bob Pozen http://bobpozen.com/?p=383 Is the U.S. Killing Its Innovation Machine?

If we want corporate America to avoid short-termism, we need to help free portfolio managers and company executives from the tyranny of quarterly results.

]]> http://bobpozen.com/2009/10/can-we-break-the-tyranny-of-quarterly-results-hbr/feed/ 0 Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis? [HBR] http://bobpozen.com/2009/10/is-it-fair-to-blame-fair-value-accounting-for-the-financial-crisis-hbr/ http://bobpozen.com/2009/10/is-it-fair-to-blame-fair-value-accounting-for-the-financial-crisis-hbr/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:44:39 +0000 Bob Pozen http://bobpozen.com/?p=375 After explaining the controversy, Pozen proposes a solution: new, transparent practices that would draw on the best of both historical cost and fair value accounting. If adopted, they could balance the banks’ desire to present assets in a good light with investors’ need to understand the banks’ exposures – and perhaps make everyone happy.

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