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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Think the iPhone at Apple, horizontal drilling at Continental Resources, or the reinvention of home goods at Ikea. times global GDP).

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

To help provide a better factual base for this debate, MGI, working with McKinsey colleagues from our Strategy & Corporate Finance practice as well as the team at FCLT Global, began last fall to devise a way to systemically measure short-termism and long-termism at the company level. Earnings quality: Accruals as a share of revenue.