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What Shareholder Value is Really About

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Critics imply that managing for shareholder value is all about maximizing the short-term stock price. Companies that manage for shareholder value, the thinking goes, do whatever it takes to engineer an ever-higher market price. Communication.