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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. It is logically the product of return on sales times the ratio of sales to assets times the ratio of assets to equity. Second, an innovation should have the widest possible market.

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