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| Value-Based Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Purpose of the Corporation | |
| The Purpose of a Corporation | p. 5 |
| Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand | p. 6 |
| A Stakeholder Perspective | p. 7 |
| Value(s)-Based Management: A Middle Ground | p. 8 |
| Summary: Creating Firm Value-Think Value(s)-Based Management | p. 10 |
| John Mackey and Milton Friedman on the Goal of the Firm | p. 13 | ... MORE
| The Elements of Value-Based Management | p. 17 |
| Wealth Creation Is Not Universal | p. 18 |
| The Proper Design of a VsBM Program | p. 20 |
| Alternative Valuation Paradigms: Earnings versus Discounted Cash Flow | p. 22 |
| Connecting Business Strategies with the Creation of Firm Value | p. 23 |
| Summary | p. 24 |
| The Need to Measure What You Want to Manage | p. 26 |
| The Need for a Single Metric | p. 27 |
| Total Shareholder Return | p. 29 |
| Total Market Value | p. 30 |
| Accounting-Based Metrics | p. 31 |
| Think Economic Profits, Not Accounting Profits | p. 32 |
| Summary | p. 37 |
| Accounting versus Economic ROIC | p. 39 |
| More Problems with Accounting-Based Metrics | p. 42 |
| The Finer Details of Value-Based Management and Corporate Social Responsibility | |
| Free Cash-Flow Valuation: The Foundation of Value-Based Management | p. 49 |
| The Beginning for Value-Based Management: Free Cash Flows | p. 50 |
| What Is Free Cash Flow? | p. 51 |
| Calculating a Firm's Free Cash Flows | p. 51 |
| Calculating the Investors' Cash Flows | p. 53 |
| Free Cash Flow and Firm Valuation | p. 55 |
| Valuing the Firm: Framing the Analysis | p. 56 |
| Free Cash Flows, but for How Long? | p. 56 |
| Forecasting Free Cash Flows | p. 57 |
| Computing a Firm's Intrinsic Value | p. 61 |
| Determining the Discount Rate | p. 63 |
| The Value Drivers: Digging Deeper | p. 65 |
| Summary | p. 68 |
| Pick a Name, Any Name: Economic Profit, Residual Income, or Economic Value Added | p. 69 |
| The Fundamental Concept: Residual Income or Economic Profits | p. 70 |
| Residual Income and Free Cash Flow | p. 71 |
| An Illustration of Valuation | p. 72 |
| A Comparison of the Residual Income and Free Cash Flow Approaches | p. 75 |
| "Fine-Tuning" Residual Income with EVA | p. 75 |
| What is EVA? | p. 76 |
| Measuring a Firm's EVA | p. 77 |
| Calculating NOPAT and Capital | p. 79 |
| From EVA to MVA | p. 83 |
| More Than a Financial Exercise | p. 87 |
| Summary | p. 91 |
| The Equivalence of the Residual Income and Discounted Dividends Valuation Approaches | p. 93 |
| An Illustration of the Computation of EVA | p. 95 |
| Performance Evaluation Using CFROI | p. 101 |
| Corporate Social Responsibility: Putting the S in Value(s)-Based Management | p. 103 |
| The Moral Argument for CSR | p. 104 |
| The Economic Argument for CSR | p. 104 |
| CSR within a VBM Framework: The Academic Evidence | p. 106 |
| Driving the Value Drivers | p. 108 |
| Red Mountain Retail Group: Creating Value through Relationships | p. 108 |
| Southwest Airlines: The Employee Comes First | p. 110 |
| Herman Miller, Inc.: Creating Wealth through Design and Innovation | p. 111 |
| Whole Foods Market, Inc.: Creating Wealth through Whole Foods, Whole People, and Whole Planet | p. 112 |
| Sony Blames Economic Value Added Mentality for Its Woes | p. 113 |
| Summary | p. 116 |
| VBM Applications | |
| Project Evaluation Using the New Metrics | p. 121 |
| Example Capital Investment Project | p. 122 |
| Traditional Measures of Project Value | p. 122 |
| Using EVA to Evaluate Project Value Creation | p. 124 |
| Fixing the Problem | p. 124 |
| Unequal Cash Flows and Positive NPV | p. 127 |
| Summary | p. 127 |
| The Equivalence of MVA and NPV | p. 132 |
| Incentive Compensation: What You Measure and Reward Is What Gets Done | p. 133 |
| All-Too-Common Mistakes | p. 136 |
| Creating a Culture of Ownership | p. 139 |
| Determining a Firm's Compensation Policy | p. 142 |
| What Should the Level of Compensation Be? | p. 142 |
| How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance? | p. 143 |
| Formula for Determining Incentive Pay | p. 143 |
| Single-Period Performance Measures and Managerial Incentives | p. 146 |
| Managerial Decision Horizon and the Use of EVA | p. 146 |
| Extending Managerial Horizons | p. 150 |
| How Should Employee Compensation Be Structured? | p. 151 |
| Fairness as an Additional Characteristic of a Firm's Compensation Policy | p. 152 |
| Summary | p. 153 |
| Whole Foods Market Executive Compensation Discussion and Analysis | p. 155 |
| Lessons We Have Learned | |
| Lessons Learned | p. 163 |
| VBM Studies Based on Archival Data | p. 164 |
| VBM Studies Based on Survey Data | p. 165 |
| Factors Critical to the Success of VBM | p. 166 |
| More Recent Survey Evidence | p. 168 |
| Current CSR Research | p. 171 |
| Summary | p. 172 |
| Epilogue: Where We Are Now | p. 175 |
| Notes | p. 181 |
| References | p. 187 |
| Index | p. 193 |
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