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California Leads Change with Its New Reproductive Loss Law

HR Digest

The overturning of Roe v. Wade last year was a particularly low point for women’s reproductive health and things have appeared to go downhill since, but California’s reproductive loss law tilts the scales back towards balance.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

A service business may have expensive computer and IT systems. What is Return on Equity (ROE)? Unlike ROA, you want the ROE to be as high as possible, but there are limitations. ” How do companies use ROA and ROE? What mistakes do people make when using ROA and ROE? Retailers need a lot of inventory.”

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Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

In Japan several factors combine to help insulate managers from outside influence, including cross-holdings where the company owns shares in a partner firm, docile boards mostly composed of company executives, and a court system historically biased against investment funds. By and large, they failed.

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Don't Confuse Engagement with User Experience

Harvard Business Review

The Android operating system has been outselling Apple's iOS by nearly a 5:1 ratio. Put another way, Apple's UX metric seems to encourage ROE — Return on Engagement — where Android emphasizes ease-of-use and opportunity. Mobile designer Luke Wroblewski captures the conundrum perfectly: What explains. The numbers don't lie.

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Would You Want Carl Icahn to Run Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

"We have a dysfunctional corporate governance system in the United States and nobody can attack it and nobody can do anything about it because it's like the feudal system." That's Carl Icahn, in a fascinating interview with Reuters BreakingViews (thanks to Jeff Glekin and Lucy Marcus for pointing me to it).

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Women Directors Change How Boards Work

Harvard Business Review

Whether one agrees with quotas as a mechanism for an increase or not (spoiler: men are less likely to ), a new look at Norway, which has a mandatory quota system of 40%, is helpful in understanding why having at least three women on a board is important.

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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. It would enhance its governance structure, improving transparency in leadership appointment, adding more diversity to the board and installing a more effective system for evaluating executive management performance.