Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2021

Corporate finance academics argue that firms should act to maximise shareholder value, since shareholders are the owners of the firm. For example, Amazon earned only modest profits from 2004 to 2015, choosing instead to focus on increasing market share and developing new products. Economics assumes that firms aim to maximise profits.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Since 2004, the global tax, auditing, and advisory firm Grant Thornton has surveyed people around the globe — this year it interviewed more than 5,000 people from 36 countries — to track the progress women are (or are not) making into senior leadership roles in their companies. That hasn’t happened.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Higher pay throughout the industry helped lead to more sales, creating a virtuous cycle of growth and prosperity. in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% For example, across our sectors and countries studied, in the decade from 1995 to 2004, growth in demand for goods and services averaged 4.6%, slowed to 2.3%

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

If an industrial product like a car fails the manufacturer pulls it back, tests it and, if necessary, re-equips it. Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets. David Aubrey/Getty Images. How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. We came to this conclusion through interviews with CTOs across a range of industries, which we conducted as part of an NSF study to identify factors explaining differences in firms’ RQ.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. He also considered the impact a change might have on his family and its finances. ” Principles to Remember.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

In 2004, the cost of manufacturing on the east coast of China was approximately 15 percentage points cheaper, on average, than in the United States. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point. However, they are encountering some formidable challenges.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Financing Wars Rather than admit the stupidity of wasting $6 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan and vowing to never do it again, Rangel proposes a War Tax. In the UK, in 2004 the Serious Fraud Office began investigating allegations of massive bribes paid by the British weapons company BAE to Saudi ministers and middlemen.

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