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Does Stating What Your Company Stands for Affect Your Bottom Line?

Harvard Business Review

The paper, published in the European Management Journal, isn’t the first to look at the values firms list on their websites; a 2013 paper tried something similar but found no correlation with performance. Companies that changed their values between 2005 and 2008 had higher return on assets than those that did not.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. So allow me.

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Jamie Dimon’s Pay Raise Sends Mixed Signals on Culture and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise. million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Bush, Chairman Amnon Rodan, and adviser Oran Arazi-Gamliel decided they had two choices for the firm’s sales strategy: They could juice the sales commission plan with temporary short-term bonuses, trying to motivate their consultants to work harder.

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What Smart Boards Do When Investors Knock

Harvard Business Review

Consider TPG, the American-based PE firm that acquired a significant fraction of China’s Lenovo after its 2005 purchase of IBM’s personal-computer division. Law firm Wachtell Lipton identified 27 activist-investor initiatives in 2000, but more than 200 in 2013.

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 million in 2013, when realized gains from stock-based pay represented 27% of total pay, to a high of $20.1 billion on buybacks, representing 67% of net income, and $22.1 billion on dividends, equivalent to 51% of net income.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

My business would be to advise SME on how to be sustainable in the long term applying quality principles right from the very beginning. The result is that only a small portion of startups survive in the long term. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company.

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