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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

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After all, your business’s future success depends not only on the health and longevity of the community in which you operate — but also on the health of our entire world. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR) 7.7% greater revenue growth 34.7%

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

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After all, your business’s future success depends not only on the health and longevity of the community in which you operate — but also on the health of our entire world. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR). higher operating profitability.

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CEOs Must Model the Behavior for Creating Societal Value

Harvard Business Review

He changed "Market Total Shareholder Return" (M-TSR)" to "Operating Total Shareholder Return (O-TSR)." M-TSR measured the market return to shareholders based on the stock price appreciation plus dividends over a three-year period.

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Don't Blame Your Company's Poor Performance on Its Industry

Harvard Business Review

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?

TSR 8
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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business Review

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard?

TSR 10
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How This Lingerie Store Boosted its Bottom Line, Despite the Downturn

Harvard Business Review

For instance, when customers expressed a desire for more time with sales associates, Journelle reorganized its operations and stripped away all non-customer facing activities (e.g. The findings revealed that a group of companies emerged with higher total shareholder return (TSR) than their peers post-recession.

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How This Lingerie Store Boosted its Bottom Line, Despite the Downturn

Harvard Business Review

For instance, when customers expressed a desire for more time with sales associates, Journelle reorganized its operations and stripped away all non-customer facing activities (e.g. The findings revealed that a group of companies emerged with higher total shareholder return (TSR) than their peers post-recession.

TSR 8