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Article #622033Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:25
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:25
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On 27/04/2018 01:10, Peter Flass wrote: > <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > Interesting article on MarketWatch a day or so about Sears. Apparently > Eddie Lampert, the guy who bought it thru his hedge fund was interested in > maximizing "shareholder value" at the expense of everting else. There's no > long-term in p%ssing off your employees and customers to milk a couple > more dollars from it. The article writer said it might be heresy to Wall > Street to suggest that this was a bad idea. > P%ssed off workers are not very productive so sales drop. Bankruptcy reduces the value of the shares to zero. I zero a genuine "shareholder value" maximisation?
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