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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Financial managers, supported by their bankers, increased their debt-to-equity ratios until capital requirements were imposed—oops, we mean until there was a catastrophic financial crash and a depression. Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. As the late C.

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