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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Brown noted a simple fact: Return on equity can be broken down into a three-part equation. Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. As the late C.

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