Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

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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TSR CEO Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

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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TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Naveen Jindal turned around the Raigarh sponge iron mill through a backward integration strategy that insulated JSPL from price volatility in commodity markets, thereby boosting profitability. Buoyed by this success, JSPL has now set very ambitious investment plans in iron ore mining, steel production and power generation.

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CEO Education TSR Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

But for a business that is struggling with growth and/or profitability, MA&D is not going to be of assistance if it distracts management’s time from fixing the core customer value equation problem — and it almost inevitably distracts. Well, Ed Garten isn’t a board member of a Dow Jones 30 company anymore.

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TSR Company IPO Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Management set out to build the best customer experience possible by instituting a training program for sales staff and fully committing themselves to its implementation. The findings revealed that a group of companies emerged with higher total shareholder return (TSR) than their peers post-recession.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Management set out to build the best customer experience possible by instituting a training program for sales staff and fully committing themselves to its implementation. The findings revealed that a group of companies emerged with higher total shareholder return (TSR) than their peers post-recession.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 8