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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR) 7.7% 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine? But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. greater revenue growth 34.7%

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR). 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine? But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. greater revenue growth.

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GE’s Fall Has Been Accelerated by Two Problems. Most Other Big Companies Face Them, Too.

Harvard Business Review

Along with a surprise halving of the dividend, Flannery announced a review of the portfolio that would see the divestitures of numerous historic GE businesses, which ended up including light bulbs, appliances, and locomotive engines. Well, Ed Garten isn’t a board member of a Dow Jones 30 company anymore.

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