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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

.” “Missing this technological wave because of insufficient policy attention or lack of targeted investment in building capacities would have long-lasting negative implications.” ” New markets According to UNCTAD, the green technology sector has the potential to create a market worth over $9.5

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Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

Harvard Business Review

Much has been made in recent years about the pernicious influence of short-term investors on corporate performance. I believe these arguments often miss a nuance: It is not the short-term investor but short-term management that is the problem. Indirectly though, these short-term traders can destroy value.

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What Shareholder Value is Really About

Harvard Business Review

Second, he or she needs to understand how capital markets work. Creating Shareholder Value. Critics imply that managing for shareholder value is all about maximizing the short-term stock price. Companies that manage for shareholder value, the thinking goes, do whatever it takes to engineer an ever-higher market price.