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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. But in most other sectors, ROEs are much greater than the cost of equity capital.

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