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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

By parsing ROE into the DuPont Equation (very rapidly to become a business school mainstay), he provided the basis for organizations divided into functions with their own objectives. When ROE holds sway, a more or less certain return on a cost-reduction investment nearly always trumps a speculative bet on a new business model.

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