Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

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. The objective is to build value and then let the price reflect that value. Take M&A as an example.

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Price CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

My colleagues and I at Bain & Company have been tracking this for forty years, and we have never seen companies losing their leadership positions as quickly as they are today. Of the 70,000 companies with market data available, more than 42,000 earned shareholder returns (dividends + stock price appreciation) below inflation.

Creativity 14

Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50