The WSJ Got Quarterly Reporting Wrong: A Corporate Executive's Response

Why James Mackintosh's defense of quarterly reporting ignores what actually happens in corporate boardrooms

James Mackintosh's recent Wall Street Journal piece defending quarterly earnings reporting reads like a textbook example of why academic analysis often misses the mark when it comes to understanding corporate behavior. As someone who lived this reality for years as Chief Technology Officer at Hewlett-Packard—the world's largest technology company at the…