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- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
- Fragmentation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.
- Harshly
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
- General Motors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.
- Options
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- Nov 07, 2020
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.
- Messy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
- Allocation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
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- Nov 07, 2020