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Strong Dollar, Weak Thinking

Harvard Business Review

The way to do that is to build market share in international markets at a level of profitability that is higher than the cost of capital. If international operations are earning above the cost of capital, the only thing shareholders should really care about is growth in market share. What is the solution?

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Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

Harvard Business Review

With the company’s share price sinking and its cost of capital rising, those deals might have to be put on hold. Investors adored the Terranola story. When the Express launched, sales of food bars in the United States were already $2 billion annually and expanding by double digits. Terranola had been moving forward with A.J.’s