Don’t Overreact to Cycles
The run-up to game seven of the NBA Finals teaches some important lessons for corporate executi…
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Is it Time to Prune the Portfolio?
Management shouldn’t be too jumpy to sell and buy businesses. They need to carefully evaluate…
Long-Term Incentives Spur Owner-Like Thinking
With the recent uproar among many large shareholders over executive pay, one would expect incen…
Are Bonuses an Obstacle to Shareholder Value?
Despite the best intentions, most annual bonus plans motivate actions that inhibit the creation…
Are Your Growth Investments Effective?
Performance scorecards that include a company's reinvestment rate and reinvestment effectivenes…
The Sum of All Investments
A rigorous annual portfolio evaluation identifies sources of value creation and destruction.
The Case for a Shareholder Value Focus
It’s the shareholders’ company. And if executives would just go by what investors do rather…
Is Accounting Blocking R&D Investments?
In many casual conversations with CFOs across a wide variety of companies and industries, we ha…
Test Your Pricing Strategy, Sandy Reminds CFOs
The gas shortage serves to remind CFOs about the ways pricing strategies can affect consumers a…
The Most and Least Effective Stock Buyback Programs
The 2012 Corporate Buyback Scorecard shows which companies do the best job of maximizing return…
Advocates Overrating the Benefits of Buybacks
A 20% boost in share price from buying back stock may sound attractive, but over five years it…
A User’s Guide to Buyback ROI, Buyback Strategy, and Buyback Effectiveness
In this guide, we explain the nature of share buybacks, why they’re done, and how their retur…
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