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Moving on from ROI to ROE, a Return on Empathy

Strategy Driven

Those making this shift will gain a significant ROE – Return on Empathy. Mark Ingwer PhD is a consumer psychologist and the managing partner of Insight Consulting Group , a global marketing and strategy consultancy specializing in market research and consumer insights. Investing in Empathy. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Life In A High-Performing Company – An Insider View

Tanveer Naseer

Indeed, these organizations roughly double industry averages on five-year ROA, ROI and ROE. Our High Performing Companies Norm is based on survey data gathered from employees working in approximately 40 companies that are financial performance leaders. From a total rewards standpoint, high performing companies offer their employees a lot.

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Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

Since the global financial crisis, a new wave of “constructive,” or friendly, activists (typically referred to as engagement funds) has tackled the same corporate governance issues, but with an explicitly low-key, humbler approach. At the time, activists were seen as bullies and pariahs.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

It would implement targets linked to shareholder value, including ROE and ROIC. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images. Most companies see investor relations as a one-way street. Simultaneously, Nikon would shift to portfolio-based management, redefining the role of each business in its portfolio to optimize resource allocation.

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Idle Funds are the Devil's Playground

Harvard Business Review

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. The result has been an economic system built increasingly around the maximization of ROE.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

corporation than "what's the ROE on that?" ROE justifies the means. To an extent not widely recognized, it was an equation in the first place that gave ROE the power to dominate not just investment decisions, but an entire business culture. There is no more powerful question in a U.S. Social media spending? Wellness checkups?

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