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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” It would implement targets linked to shareholder value, including ROE and ROIC.

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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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