How Should Companies Balance Short-Term Pressures with Long-Term Interests?

Update: 2025-05-08

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How should companies balance short-term pressures with long-term interests?
Can they do both—and if so, how?

That’s the question we posed at a live event that BU Questrom held in April.

Host Curt Nickisch spoke to Stuart Hart, Professor in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, and the author of Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future; Anthony Allot, Board Chair and former CEO of Silgan Holdings Corporation; Aneliya Crawford, Head of ESG Advisory at UBS; and Andrew King, Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Strategy & Innovation at BU Questrom.

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