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How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The.

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The World: A Video Every Leader Must See by Starbucker on August 29, 2010 In early 1997, its stock price was $4. It was about passion. And about people who have it.

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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. Second, he or she needs to understand how capital markets work. Companies that manage for shareholder value, the thinking goes, do whatever it takes to engineer an ever-higher market price. Understanding Capital Markets.

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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

Today, only 9% of businesses in the world have achieved even a modest level of sustained, profitable growth over the past decade on average (5.5%, earning cost of capital) and that is declining — even though virtually all the businesses aspire to something like this or more. That is a topic for a future blog.).