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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

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