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Women Directors Change How Boards Work

Harvard Business Review

The examples are numerous: Citing private internal research of 20,000 client teams, EY’s vice chair Beth Brooke has said that the more diverse teams had higher profitability and great client satisfaction than non-diverse teams. Higher quality monitoring of and guidance to management. More orderly and systematic board work.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

corporation than "what's the ROE on that?" Conversely, why market cigarettes? ROE justifies the means. To an extent not widely recognized, it was an equation in the first place that gave ROE the power to dominate not just investment decisions, but an entire business culture. There is no more powerful question in a U.S.

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