shareholder value

The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

by Sebastian Mallaby;  · 30 Mar 2026  · 607pp  · 161,998 words

the lower of these numbers, and subtracting the $10 billion injected by Microsoft, a lowball estimate is that Altman and OpenAI generated $47 billion in shareholder value in the space of twelve months. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 33 Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, and Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis over

Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom

by Doug Henwood  · 30 Aug 1998  · 586pp  · 159,901 words

bit of a loss. Not satisfied with one of the great long-term bull markets in U.S. history, they continued to whine about "unlocking shareholder value" hidden in the crevices of corporate America. Since leverage turned out to be a very risky way of liberating those hidden dollars, a new strategy

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while the likes of Pickens were wilding their way across the corporate landscape. While Sigler argued that "society" owned firms, not "shareholders," Pickens countered that shareholder value was all. His oil company didn't really drill much — he preferred to explore for oil on the New York Stock Exchange, by buying up

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Calpers, the Twentieth Century Fund (1992), or Robert Monks (1995). Professional rentiers and their bankers will no doubt find a new fad designed to unlock shareholder value, and devise a fresh set of arguments for why their enrichment is synonymous with the common good. Aside from Margaret Blair — though she is far

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growth in influence, 4 hit lists, 290 reciprocal, Japan, 275 as risk-bearers, 293 who needs them?, 291-294 see also corporations, governance; stock markets shareholder value (rentier war-cry), 288 Sharpe, William, 162; see also capital asset pricing model Sherman Act, 94 Shiller, Robert, 175-177, 185, 300, 319 fantasy of

What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right

by George R. Tyler  · 15 Jul 2013  · 772pp  · 203,182 words

of the hallmarks of Reaganomics was a transition from stakeholder capitalism to shareholder capitalism since the 1980s, in which executive suites nominally seek to maximize shareholder value. Here is how economists Isil Erel, René Stulz, Reena Aggarwal, and Rohan Williamson explained the difference: “Corporate governance differs across countries. In some countries, many

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of shareholder capitalism has become sharp, exemplified by Cornell law professor Lynn A. Stout, author of The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public: “In the quest to ‘unlock shareholder value,’ they sell key assets, fire loyal employees, and ruthlessly squeeze the workforce that remains; cut back on

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the interests of managers rather than shareholders. Short-termism and weak productivity emerged as executives became inattentive to the long-run success of corporations, minimizing shareholder value. The most potent threat to shareholder capitalism is more public oversight. To reduce that risk, the business community has aggressively argued that government Is invariably

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. A different breed of executive came to command enterprises whose management imperative was adopted from folks like Alfred Rappaport, professor emeritus at Northwestern. In Creating Shareholder Value, he argued that “the ultimate test of corporate strategy, the only reliable measure, is whether it creates economic value for shareholders.”16 Only a few

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entirely. Fortune magazine named him corporate manager of the century.* Welch famously argued in 1981 that the sole goal of a firm is to maximize shareholder value, to push share prices ever skyward.25 With his imprimatur, the market measurement of share prices became a mantra. This new philosophy, which rejected stakeholder

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shareholder capitalism fails to resolve the agency problem, and stock options exacerbate the failure. Indeed, options have been determined to have no persistent impact on shareholder value according to research conducted at the University of Hong Kong School of Business by Liu Zheng and Xianming Zhou. Using statistics from the Computstat® ExecuComp

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months surrounding CEO departure for those with high option holdings, which are reversed shortly after CEO departure…. Without any persistent effect of stock options on shareholder value, our results do not support the presumed role of options in providing managerial working incentives.”62 Options misalign managerial interests with shareholder interests in two

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and Huck. That dictum is belied by the wave of value-destroying mergers characterizing American enterprise in recent decades. Shareholder capitalism incentivizes mergers that destroy shareholder value. It works this way: managers are rewarded for spiking share values in the current reporting quarter, affording them the opportunity to cash out options. And

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annual share performance. A modern-day restatement of Marshall is provided by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Dean of Yale’s School of Management, who criticizes Reaganomics: “Immediate shareholder value maximization, by itself, was always too short-term in nature. It created a fleeting illusion of value creation by emphasizing immediate goals over long-term

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at macroeconomic data—overall investment returns, numbers of firms choosing to go or remain public, relative economic performance of ‘shareholder-friendly’ jurisdictions—it suggests the shareholder value dogma may be economically counterproductive.”54 How Family Capitalism Avoids Weak Corporate Governance Cutting R&D or human capital investment is scarcely the prescription for

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accommodate codeterminism; it does not even give preference to shareholder over stakeholder capitalism, as noted by Cornell professor Stout: “It shows how the ideology of shareholder value maximization lacks any solid foundation in corporate law, corporate economics, or the empirical evidence. Contrary to what many believe, US corporate law does not impose

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company, the higher is his or her amount of firm-specific knowledge and this knowledge contributes to the added value of a firm … A shortsighted shareholder value orientation is ill advised and may impede performance. To secure success in the long run, these organizations have to bind the human resources to the

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and stakeholder capitalism provide greater returns to shareholders than shareholder capitalism. A growing number of American economists have concluded that shareholder capitalism fails to deliver shareholder value, fatally flawed by its short-termism. This includes Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch and also Harvard business professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter.78 Fox and

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achieved through direct board representation reduces labor-management antagonism, engenders a team approach to problem solving, and allows natural synergies to emerge that ultimately benefit shareholder value. The most powerful finding by Fauver and Fuerst is that codetermination increases the share value assigned to such firms by the marketplace by about 10

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that it will not succeed until it emulates the United States with lower taxes, less social protection, a smaller state, and a narrow focus on shareholder value.”67 As we are learning, reality is much different. Northern Europe Is an Economic Powerhouse A number of European firms such as Ikea and Siemens

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writing during the depths of the stock market decline in March 2009 about corporate governance reforms: “Long-held tenets of corporate faith—the pursuit of shareholder value, the use of stock options to motivate employees, and a light regulator touch allied with board oversight of management—are being blamed for the turmoil

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. Nearly 30 years later, he recanted his advocacy of shareholder capitalism. In March 2009, Welch wrote: “… shareholder capitalism is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy. Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers, and your products.”12 Eliminating managerial capitalism starts at the top

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Labor Day,” Washington Post, September 7, 2009. 25 Robert R. Trumble and Angela N. DeLowell, “Connecting CEO performance to corporate performance: Examining intangible metrics of shareholder value,” Journal of Compensation and Benefits, November/December 2001. 26 Alan Auerbach, “BEA Advisory Committee Meeting,” Bureau of Economic Analysis, May 1, 2009. 27 Steven Greenhouse

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on Living Standards, October 2011, 19. 3 Gideon Rachman, “The end of the Thatcher era,” Financial Times, April 27, 2009. 4 Lynn A. Stout, “The Shareholder Value Myth,” The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (blog), June 26, 2012, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26

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/the-shareholder-value-myth/. 5 Jonsson, “America’s ‘other’ auto industry.” See also: “AP, “New contract with UAW only minimally increases GM fixed costs,” Washington Post, September 19

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, http://www.alternet.org/story/154789/whose_corporations_our_corporations! 14 Jacobson, Ibid. 15 Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression, 210. 16 Alfred Rappaport, Creating Shareholder Value (New York: Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 1986). 17 Andrew Martin, “In Company Town, Cuts but No Layoffs,” New York Times, Sept. 25, 2011. 18

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. Frank, “A Remedy Worse Than the Disease,” Pathways, Stanford Center for Poverty and Inequality, Summer 2010. 4 Jesse Eisinger, “Challenging the Long-held Belief in ‘Shareholder Value,’” New York Times, June 28, 2012. 5 Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch, “What Good Are Shareholders?,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2012. 6 Milton

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Industry May Not Survive,” Financial Times, March 18, 2008. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c8941ad4-f503-11dc-a21b-000077b07658.html#axzz24CFwaGsQ. 45 “Shareholder Values,” Editorial, Financial Times, April 19, 2011. 46 Robert R.Trumble and Angela N. DeLowell, “Connecting CEO Performance to Corporate Performance: Examining Intangible Metrics of

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Shareholder Value,” Journal of Compensation and Benefits, November/December 2001. 47 Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix, “What’s Right, What’s Wrong and What’s Fixable,” Pathways,

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, “What Good Are Shareholders?” 2 Richard Lambert, “Sir Ralph’s Lessons on Short-Termism,” Financial Times, May 22, 2011. 3 Antoine Reverchon, “Employee Satisfaction and Shareholder Value Are Correlated,” Le Monde, Sept. 26, 2011. 4 Bill George, “What Minnesota Can Learn from Germany,” Star Tribune, Jan. 7, 2012. 5 John Kay, “Why

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Finance, Bank of England, May 2011. 22 Justin Fox and Jay Lorsch, “What Good Are Shareholders?” 23 Jesse Eisinger, “Challenging the Long-Held Belief in ‘Shareholder Value,’” New York Times, June 28, 2012. 24 Michael Clowes, The Money Flood: How Pension Funds Revolutionized Investing (New York: Wiley, 2000). 25 James M. Poterba

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Fe Institute, January 2010. 53 Robert J. Shiller, “Stuck in Neutral? Reset the Mood,” New York Times, Jan. 31, 2010. 54 Lynn A. Stout, “The Shareholder Value Myth.” 55 Edmund S. Phelps, “The Economy Needs a Bit of Ingenuity,” New York Times, Aug. 7, 2010. 56 William D. Cohen, “Want to Fix

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, 2013, http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/oekonomie/nachrichten/arbeitnehmermitsprache-die-mitbestimmung-im-urteil-der-oekonomen-seite-all/7683538-all.html. 69 Lynn A. Stout, “The Shareholder Value Myth,” Harvard Law School, Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, June 26, 2012, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the

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-shareholder-value-myth/. 70 See David Ignatius, “Smart Power Amid the Social Whirl,” Washington Post, Jan. 21, 2011. 71 Susanne Royer et al., “Employee Voice and Strategic

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record $1tn” Financial Times, Dec. 30, 2012. 7 Robert R. Trumble and Angela N. DeLowell, “Connecting CEO performance to corporate performance: examining intangible metrics of shareholder value,” Journal of Compensation and Benefits, Nov/Dec 2001. 8 Michael T. Snyder, “So Long, Middle Class,” New York Post, Aug. 1, 2010. 9 Robert Gordon

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Became the China of Europe,” Time Magazine, Feb. 24, 2011. Thomas Schulz, “How The German Economy Became a Model,” Der Spiegel, March 21, 2012. 11 “Shareholder Value Reevaluated,” Editorial, Financial Times, March 15, 2009. 12 Francesco Guerrera, “Welch Denounces Corporate Obsessions,” Financial Times, March 13, 2009. 13 John Gillespie and David Zweig

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–21, 358 Storbeck, Olaf (Handelsblatt reporter), 85 Story, Louise (New York Times), 463 Stout, Lynn (Cornell University professor), 43, 163, 169 shareholder capitalism, 163 The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public, 47–48 Stulz, Rene (economist), 39, 178 Sullivan, Martin, 277, 348 Summers, Lawrence H

The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise

by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher  · 1 Dec 2009

Ego at the Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Mission First, People Always. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Making Timely, Sound, and Morally Correct Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Empowering Teams and Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Alignment with Shareholder Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Goals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Putting Vision, Mission, and Goals Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 The Causal Roadmap to Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Key Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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smaller Quigo to countless others, this pair has built around-the-clock reliability, which contributed to the creation of hundreds of millions of dollars in shareholder value. A company can’t operate in the digital age without flawless technical operations. In fact, the lack of a not just good, but great, scalable

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the feedback includes both praise for great performance and information regarding what they can improve. Management is about measuring and improving everything that ultimately creates shareholder value, examples of which are reducing the cost to perform an activity or increasing the throughput of an activity at the same cost. Management is communicating

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ridiculous to you. Unfortunately, this problem exists in many of our larger client companies and when it happens it not only wastes money and destroys shareholder value, it can create long-term resentment between organizations and destroy employee morale. In this case, let’s assume that an organization is split between an

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his technology problems, he knows that long term he is going to have to focus his teams on how they can work together and create shareholder value. He implements a tool for defining roles and responsibilities called RASCI for Responsible, Accountable, Supportive, Consulted, and Informed (this tool is defined further in the

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decision. This information distribution mechanism simply does not scale and results in people reading emails rather than doing what they should be doing to create shareholder value. A partially filled out example matrix is included in Table 2.1. Taking some of our discussion thus far regarding different roles, let’s see

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even in light of their apparent contradictions. Broadly speaking, as public company executives, managers, or individual contributors, “Getting our jobs done” means maximizing shareholder value. We’ll discuss maximizing shareholder value in the section on vision and mission. Effective leaders and managers get the mission accomplished—great leaders and managers do so by creating

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can help move the company in the right direction. Johnny recalls that the components of vision are • Vivid description of an ideal future • Important to shareholder value creation • Measurable • Inspirational • Incorporate elements of your beliefs • Mostly static, but modifiable as the need presents itself • Easily remembered Johnny knows that he needs to

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debate with the operations leader on the topic but believes strongly that any goal related negotiation should never stand as a reason for not creating shareholder value. Johnny makes the operations head the “R” for determining how to accomplish the goal. He believes the operations team can accomplish the goal on its

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way, the bottom line is affected beneficially, profits go up, and shareholders are willing to pay more for equity. The increase in equity price creates shareholder value. Operations teams are responsible for ensuring that systems are available when they should be available in order to keep the company from experiencing lost opportunity

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with their systems. Doing that well also contributes to shareholder value by 85 86 C HAPTER 4 L EADERSHIP 101 maximizing productivity or revenue, thereby increasing the bottom line either through increasing the top line or

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reducing cost. Again, increasing the bottom line (net income or profits) increases the price shareholders would be willing to pay and increases shareholder value. Quality assurance teams help reduce lost opportunity associated with the deployment of a product and the cost of developing that product. By ensuring that the

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, which is the notion of helping your organization to tie everything that it does back to what is important to the company: the maximization of shareholder value. Key Points • Leadership is influencing the behavior of an organization or a person to accomplish a specific objective. • Leaders, whether born or made, can get

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. • Be morally straight always. What you allow you teach and what you teach becomes your standard. • Align everything you do with shareholder value. Don’t do things that don’t create shareholder value. • Vision is a vivid description of an ideal future. The components of vision are q Vivid description of an ideal future

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frame your vision, mission, and goals and help employees understand how they contribute to those goals and how the employee aids in the creation of shareholder value. Chapter 5 Management 101 In respect of the military method, we have, firstly, Measurement; secondly, Estimation of quantity; thirdly, Calculation; fourthly Balancing of chances; fifthly

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their organizations, and the efficiency of everything. Project and Task Management Good managers get projects done on time, on budget, and meet the expectations of shareholder value creation in the completion of their projects. Great managers do the same thing even in the face of adversity. Both accomplish those tasks based on

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requires measurements in order to be produced. We believe in creating cultures that support measurement of nearly everything that is related to the creation of shareholder value. With respect to scale, however, we believe in bundling our measurements thematically. The themes we most often recommend for scale related purposes are cost, availability

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to speak the universal language of business, you will earn the gratitude and respect of your business counterparts. Remember our points regarding the maximization of shareholder value. If you hold a technology management or executive position, you are first and foremost a manager or executive of that business. You must learn to

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simply aren’t the best at everything. Furthermore, your shareholders really expect you to focus on the things that really create competitive differentiation and therefore shareholder value. So only build things when you are really good at it and it makes a significant difference in your product, platform, or system. Use Commodity

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value and minimize the returns associated with dedicating internal and expensive resources to any piece of your architecture. Building a database now has very low shareholder value as compared to the alternative of using several commodity databases. Need more database power? Design your application to make use of any number of databases

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infrastructure, it very often becomes the source of the company’s scalability crisis. Too much time is spent managing the proprietary system that provides “incredible shareholder value” and too little making and creating business functionality and working to really scale the platform. To clarify this point, let’s take a well known

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? This is one of the most important questions within the build versus buy analysis process. At the heart of this question is the notion of shareholder value. If you are not creating competitive differentiation, thereby making it more difficult for your competition to win deals or steal customers, why would you possibly

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the competition catches up to us and offers similar functionality? • Can we build this component cost effectively? Are we reducing our cost and creating additional shareholder value and are we avoiding lost opportunity in revenue? Remember that you are always likely to be biased toward building so do your best to protect

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is dubious regarding the potential returns of such a system. Christine E. Oberman, CEO, is always talking about how they should think in terms of shareholder value creation, so Johnny decides to discuss the opportunity with her. Together, Johnny and Christine walk through the four-part build versus buy checklist. They decide

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CRM product. Johnny and Christine disagree on whether they are the best builders and owners of the asset. Although they agree that it can create shareholder value, Christine doubts that the engineers they have today have the best skills to build such an interpreter. Christine pushes Johnny to experienced help in interpreters

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or two for the upcoming board of directors meetings to discuss the ScaleTalk decision. Conclusion Build versus buy decisions have an incredible capability to destroy shareholder value if not approached carefully. Incorrect decisions can steal resources to scale your platform, increase your cost of operations, steal resources away from critical customer facing

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and revenue producing functionality, and destroy shareholder value. We noted that there is a natural bias toward building over buying and we urged you to guard strongly against that bias. We presented the

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help you make the right choice. Key Points • Making poor build versus buy choices can destroy your capability to scale cost effectively and can destroy shareholder value. • Cost centric approaches to build versus buy focus on reducing overall cost but suffer from a lack of focus on lost opportunity and strategic alignment

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the competition catches up to us and offers similar functionality? • Can we build this component cost effectively? Are we reducing our cost and creating additional shareholder value and are we avoiding lost opportunity in revenue? Remember that you are always likely to be biased toward building so do your best to protect

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the Cost-Value Data Dilemma, citing the option value of data or claiming competitive advantage through infinite data retention, all potentially have dilutive effects to shareholder value. If the real upside of the decisions (or lack of decisions in the case of ignoring the dilemma) does not create more value than the

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and unprofitable customers nevertheless applies to your data. In nearly any environment, with enough investigation, you will likely find data that adds shareholder value and data that is dilutive to shareholder value as the cost of retaining that data on its existing storage solution is greater than the value that it creates. Just as

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perceived competitive differentiation should include values and time limits on data to properly determine if the data is accretive or dilutive to shareholder value. • Eliminate data that is dilutive to shareholder value, or find alternative storage approaches to make the data accretive. Tiered storage strategies and data transformation are all methods of cost justifying

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future of the entire company likely rests with your system remaining consistently available. Why is this decision so important? Ultimately, you are striving to maximize shareholder value. If you make a decision to spend capital investing in hardware and data center space, this takes cash away from other projects that you could

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are more indicative of “where the problem is” rather than that a problem exists. The best metrics here are directly correlated to the creation of shareholder value. A high shopping cart abandonment rate and significantly lower click through rates are both indicative of likely user experience problems that are negatively impacting your

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predictive monitoring solution, but at the very least, they should be identified at the point at which they start to cause customer problems and impact shareholder value. In many mature monitoring solutions, the monitoring system itself will be responsible not only for the initial detection of an incident but for the reporting

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of “Is there a problem?” The types of monitors that answer these questions best are tightly aligned with the business and technology drivers that create shareholder value. Most often, these are real-time monitors on transaction volumes, revenue creation, cost of revenue, and customer interactions with the system. Third-party customer experience

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a way to produce the product, they are a limitation on the quantity that can be produced, and they are either accretive or dilutive to shareholder value, depending upon their level of utilization. Taking and simplifying the automotive industry as an example, new factories are initially dilutive as they represent a new

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repeatability and then specifically for what steps are right for your particular team in terms of complexity. Too much process can stifle innovation and strangle shareholder value, whereas if you are missing the processes that allow you to learn from both your past mistakes and failures, you will very likely at least

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, a single failure will likely not cause any customer impacting issues. The best measure of availability will have a direct relation to the maximization of shareholder value; this maximization in turn likely considers the impact to customer experience and the resulting impact to revenue or cost for the company. C USTOMER C

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Disks), 412 mapping data, 420–423 MapReduce program, 420–423 option value of data, 414–415, 416 peak utilization time, 413 reducing data, 420–423 shareholder value, diluting, 415 strategic advantage value of data, 415, 416–417 summary of, 414 tiered storage solutions, 417–419 transforming for storage, 419–420 unprofitable data

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, Justin, 67 L Last-mile monitoring, 476 Leadership. See also Management; Organizational design; Staffing for scalability. 360-degree reviews, 69 abuse of, 70 alignment with shareholder values, 74–75 born vs. made, 65 causal roadmap to success, 84–86 characteristics of, 66–67 compassion, 68 credibility, 70, 73 decision making, 73 definition

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(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 429 SETI@home project, 429 Sharding, definition, 311 Shards, definition, 311 Shared infrastructure, grid benefit, 457 Shareholder test, 24 Shareholder value, dilution by data cost, 415 Shareholder values, leadership alignment with, 74–75 ShareThis, case studies, 507–508 Slavery, abolition of, 80 Slivers, definition, 311 SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

by William D. Cohan  · 15 Nov 2009  · 620pp  · 214,639 words

a sale of the company—“with a focus on ensuring that we can handle and protect our customers well and at the same time maximize shareholder value.” Schwartz then opened up the call to questions and said he looked forward to speaking with everyone again on Monday for the earnings release. Guy

The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated

by Gautam Baid  · 1 Jun 2020  · 1,239pp  · 163,625 words

. The financial metrics might appear attractive, but a parasitic relationship of extracting value from customers (rather than adding value to them) usually ends up destroying shareholder value at some point in the future. On the other, we have companies like Amazon, led by Jeff Bezos, who says, “We’ve done price elasticity

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hand and use it to underline clichés such as “employees are our greatest assets,” “our future is bright,” “advancing momentum,” and “we aim to create shareholder value.” This kind of meaningless jargon and platitudes diminishes our understanding of the business and our trust in the leadership. When we finish coding a communication

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.”7 Once a spinoff is complete, its management is freed from the bureaucracy of the parent and is empowered to make changes that will create shareholder value, because if management owns a significant portion of the spinoff’s stock, they will benefit directly. Greenblatt writes, “A strategy of investing in the shares

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that it restricts realizable growth. —Phil Fisher When businesses treat equity capital as gold, even those with limited internal compounding growth opportunities can create significant shareholder value through disciplined capital allocation. If excess free cash flow cannot be reinvested, then look for sound capital allocation that might result in dividends or value

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repurchase stock. It is smart capital allocation to raise equity at a low dilution when the shares are trading at steep valuations. To create significant shareholder value, absolute size of the firm does not matter. Profitability matters. Businesses can achieve high returns through high profit margins. Capital efficiency matters. Businesses with a

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, stay the course. Tying It Together: ROIC with Competitive Advantage and Capital Allocation Critically evaluating the durability of competitive advantage and how capital allocation affects shareholder value can create a variant perception when selecting equities for long holding periods. —Pat Dorsey Combining the key insights from this chapter, we arrive at investing

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I had ample capital and skilled personnel, to compete with it. —Warren Buffett Capital Allocation Capital allocation is the bridge between intrinsic business value and shareholder value. If a company has high-return investment opportunities internally, it should reinvest heavily. Maturing companies, however, often continue to invest despite declining or low returns

How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World

by Dambisa Moyo  · 3 May 2021  · 272pp  · 76,154 words

for bankruptcy. Leaving a good legacy is becoming harder, however, as the corporate board’s oversight role becomes ever more challenging and baseline notions about shareholder value and social responsibility shift with the changing times. Twenty-first-century companies are buffeted by unprecedented economic headwinds. Particularly after the onset of the coronavirus

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more than 100 percent, and this placed pressure on boards and management teams across the banking sector to match the payouts of their competitors. Some shareholders value money today over investment for tomorrow. But picking one option over the other depends on a range of factors: Can the dividend be sustained? How

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company establishes and maintains its reputation. As recent upheavals at Wells Fargo, WeWork, the Weinstein Company, and others have shown, culture directly affects profitability and shareholder value, and ultimately determines whether a company lives or dies. Headlines may give the impression that the cultural issues challenging corporations are purely the result of

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to the transformation of the environment around them. For now, the law of the land is very clear: the true north for a company remains shareholder value. But things are changing, and in the years ahead there must be more focus on social and environmental concerns. The best boards are not waiting

Too big to fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system from crisis--and themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin  · 15 Oct 2009  · 351pp  · 102,379 words

to send him the announcement, which included an important headline buried at the bottom: “The firm remains committed to examining all strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value,” which meant that it was open to just about anything. He knew the company had been quietly shopping pieces of itself, but that statement effectively

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newsstand. That morning’s Washington Post was typical of the tone of the coverage: “Stocks Plunge as Crisis Intensifies; AIG at Risk; $700 Billion in Shareholder Value Vanishes.” The Dow Jones Industrial Average had slumped 504.48 points on Monday, the biggest point decline for the index since September 17, 2001, when

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’s shareholders, creditors and our country to try. Since you became Chairman of AIG, you and the Board have presided over the virtual destruction of shareholder value built up over 35 years. It is not my intention to try to point fingers or be critical. My only point is that under the

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, September 16, 2008. “Stocks Plunge as Crisis Intensifies”: Glenn Kessler and David S. Hilzenrath, “Stocks Plunge as Crisis Intensifies; AIG at Risk; $700 Billion in Shareholder Value Vanishes,” Washington Post, September 16, 2008. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had slumped 504.48 points: The Dow dropped 504.5 points on Monday. Alex

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

by William D. Cohan  · 25 Dec 2015  · 1,009pp  · 329,520 words

begin to lift the fog." To raised eyebrows, Bruce blamed Time Warner management for creating a "corporate inferno" that immolated at least $40 billion in shareholder value through a combination of, among other things, "bloated overhead" (evidenced by the company's new corporate headquarters at Columbus Circle and its fleet of corporate

The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak: The Terms You Need to Know to Talk Like Cramer, Think Like Soros, and Buy Like Buffett

by Jack (edited By) Guinan  · 27 Jul 2009  · 353pp  · 88,376 words

the money required to maintain or expand its asset base. Free cash flow is important because it allows a company to pursue opportunities that enhance shareholder value. Without cash, it is tough to develop 110 The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak new products, make acquisitions, pay dividends, and reduce debt. FCF is

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160 The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak wealth, but if it fails to do so, the interest expense and credit risk of default can destroy shareholder value. Related Terms: • Debt Ratio • Leveraged Buyout—LBO • Operating Leverage • Deleverage • Margin Leverage Ratio What Does Leverage Ratio Mean? (1) Any ratio used to calculate the

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