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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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Activist Hedge Funds Aren’t Good for Companies or Investors, So Why Do They Exist?

Harvard Business Review

Activist hedge funds have become capital market and financial media darlings. activist hedge fund investments Allaire studied, the mean compound annual TSR for the activists was 12.4% If they can get their target sold, the compound annual TSR jumps from a lackluster 12.4% akindo/Getty Images. But for the universe of U.S.

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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?

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

Harvard Business Review

” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Specifically, to help modify the bank’s culture to match its stated values, the Remuneration Committee and Board recommended a change to the reward split: TSR 50%, customer satisfaction 25%, and people and community 25%.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

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It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR) 7.7% But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. For example, high purpose companies experience: 14.1% 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). But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. For example, high purpose companies experience: 14.1% greater revenue growth.

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The Best Indian CEO List: Youth and Education Rank High

Harvard Business Review

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. billion).

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