Maximizing Shareholder Value

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Corporate management and Boards of directors are obligated by law to make decisions that maximize the economic value of the company.
Defenders of Maximizing Shareholder Value
Down With Shareholder Value
Few Shareholders Have Any Effect at All on Corporate Strategy
Friedman Doctrine
Homo economicus
How the 80s Warped Finance
How To Fix Stagnant Wages: Dump The World's Dumbest Idea
It’s time for top CEOs to realign their interests—beyond those of elevating shareholders above all
John Fullerton
Managing for the Long Term
Maximizing Shareholder Value (or Profits) Damages Humanity
Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
Opinion: The myth of maximizing shareholder value
Rethinking Shareholder Value and CSR: "Do Well by Doing Good" a False Premise
Shareholder Primacy
The Copernican Revolution In Management
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
The Economist Defends 'The World's Dumbest Idea'
The Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman
The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations and the Public (2012)
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits (Sept 13 1970)
Today’s Organizational Stack
Why Can't We End Short-Termism?
Why Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Finally Dying

Business Roundtable: Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation (2019, not just shareholders!)
For Many Industries, Profit Maximization Doesn't Work
Stakeholder Theory
The Most Important Problem in the World