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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Ernst & Young Purpose Is Deeper Than Profit Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR) 7.7% higher operating profitability Corporate purpose is about doing the right thing for the sake of our world.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR). Corporate purpose is about doing the right thing for the sake of our world. Millennials and Generation Z, who together make up nearly half of the full-time workforce in the U.S.

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Say on Pay in 2011, and What to Expect for 2012

Harvard Business Review

We found that investors voted "no" on Say on Pay for four primary reasons: A disconnect between pay and performance (92 percent), with performance generally defined as relative and absolute Total Shareholder Return (TSR) over one, three, and five years; or financial performance, such as revenue and earnings growth, over multi-year timeframes.

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