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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS. Nobody complains. Amazon could make the wrong bets.