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CEOs Must Model the Behavior for Creating Societal Value

Harvard Business Review

When Lafley took over as CEO, he made a subtle but important but change in a core, senior-management, performance-measurement criterion. He changed "Market Total Shareholder Return" (M-TSR)" to "Operating Total Shareholder Return (O-TSR)."

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Don't Blame Your Company's Poor Performance on Its Industry

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, our study shows that the biggest variations in TSR are not between industries but within them. But the TSR variations of companies within these industries were far greater: 44 percentage points in tobacco and 69 percentage points in computers and peripherals. For them, industry was not destiny. So how do the winners do it?

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