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Profits: The Real Power Player in CEO Compensation

By Özlem Elgün Tillman November 26, 2024

When it comes to paying top executives, companies love to tie compensation to metrics like revenue growth and market share expansion. After all, these are clear indicators of a company’s size and reach. But while capturing market share can tell a story of growth, they’re not always the best measure of financial health. For example, Uber failed to return a profit for many years, finally turning profitable $1.887 billion in 2023, first…

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Power Risks California Power Problems Caused by Dumb Regulation, Not Deregulation

By Tim J. Smith, PhD February 5, 2001

Recent news concerning power outages have been of dour amusement for this Chicagoan. Once again, a subset of people (read: the state)…

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The Next Disruptive Technology – Distributed Generation

By Tim J. Smith, PhD September 25, 2000

Is Enron coming for lunch? Introduction The past three decades have offered ample evidence of the ability of disruptive technologies to create…

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Industrial Non-Equilibrium Dynamics

By Tim J. Smith, PhD May 30, 2000

Economic transactions and industrial reorganizations are akin to the evolution of a complex system punctuated with periods of equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics.…

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