These criteria were chosen because they reflect commonly recognized measures of overall company performance and are associated with the creation of value for shareholders.
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The philosophical belief that is held dear at Haier is that the creation of value for the customer is a precondition for the creation of value for the company.
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In the book, the authors set out to reinvent capitalism as a force for good with a new blueprint that focuses on the creation of value that can serve to create prosperity for society as a whole.
All successful businesses revolve around the creation of value: Social business is about injecting the strategic value of social tools into the heart of your enterprise, harvesting the kind of success companies from IBM to Walgreens and Burberry have enjoyed by doing so.
The size and complexity of this data, in combination with the focus on the creation of shareholder value through competitively superior decision-making, has required a unique process that has led to some conclusions contrary to emerging received wisdom, starting with an unconventional definition of Big Data.
Intel incorporated an integrated approach into this report, providing information on the connection between corporate responsibility performance and the creation of business value.
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Firms that are successful in building these capabilities have enormous opportunities, not just for risk mitigation, but for the creation of business value through proactive management of supply chains and identification of new areas for growth.
That drew the ire of hedge fund manager Keith Meister, who sent a harshly-worded letter Tuesday demanding the board cease the offer, and decrying management incentives that do not mesh with the creation of shareholder value.
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And about the creation of shared value.
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It also boasts of a focus on business niches in which it can secure a top-five position, and a pioneering risk-management system that emphasises the creation of shareholder value, and links employees' remuneration to their value to shareholders.
That said, too often the investment of money in a company is treated as a success in and of itself rather than the creation of true intrinsic value in solid and sustainable models.
By contrast, Apotheker seems to be focusing on the creation of higher-value services that the company can offer large companies, small and mid-sized businesses, and consumers.
More importantly, at the end of the day, what makes these companies work despite the rules is the imperative of shareholder value creation.
The dangerous confusion is, as so often in well-meaning economic rule-making, one of mistaking an ideal-utopian labor world (where even unskilled workers make a decent living from the get-go) with the world as it is: one where the value-creation of labor, not utopian ideals, sets the price.
Furthermore, the scope of opportunities for value creation via the interaction between finance and strategy is broader in an international context.
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We also believe that this focus is critical for the creation of long-term value.
There has been tremendous growth within business schools focused on the creation of economic and social value including corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship.
The investors and directors McKinsey surveyed want companies to move toward separating the roles of chief executive and chairman, to make directors more independent and accountable, and to scale back and restructure executive compensation so that it is aligned more closely with the creation of long-term value.
In business, innovation is the act of applying knowledge to the creation of new processes, products, and services that have value for at least one of your stakeholder groups.
One common theme for the brands with low scores in value-creation is the presence of family ownership.
But the Bain managers may have put profits interests in family trusts at the time of the creation of the funds, arguing that the option value was really low.
As the largest tobacco company in the U.S. with leading brands, its strong pricing power and product mix continue to be the key sources of value creation.
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Companies that open blue oceans with defensible solutions and can ride the wave rather than selling out too early are the ones that stand to capture the lion share of value creation.
"Adding Virgin Media to our large and growing European operations is a natural extension of the value creation strategy we've been successfully using for over seven years, " said Mike Fries, chief executive of Liberty Global.
Studies of European firms before 1998 told a similar story: one of modest value creation, with most of the benefit going to the sellers.
This is one reason why Zephyr, which specializes in the creation and management of highly focused and value-added investment funds in the emerging markets, is highly optimistic about opportunities in the developing countries.
The question for policy makers interested in regional economic growth and job creation is what is the most valuable part of the value chain to occupy?
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After the war, the group transformed itself into a lay religious organisation, adopting the name Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), and embracing the faith of the 700-year-old Nichiren Shoshu sect.
Growth is a significant part of value creation and the primary motive behind an IPO is to raise more capital to fund further growth.
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