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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Anyone would have concluded that allocating capital according to expected return on equity would be optimal for growth. The ability to do that rose to a new level in 1917, when General Motors was in financial difficulty and DuPont took a major position in the company. (GM Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

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