Scott Bok
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484 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Shareholder value.
Have you heard the good
Have you heard the good book?
Exactly.
Because, you know, there this thing that we totally came to take for granted about like what are corporations for?
What is their purpose?
Is Americans would tell you, and I think now around the world they would tell you, they're largely for shareholder value.
You can talk about different constituents and so on.
But I can tell you when we went to talk to German and French and other companies back in the early 90s, that was a novel concept for them.
You know, that it wasn't just
about building a bigger enterprise or surviving difficult times and just building great resilience.
Right.
It was about wow, you can actually focus on the goal of creating shareholder value.
And that is what drove I think MA.
And that MA just kind of a virtuous circle drove more of that thinking.
It certainly feels like a new regime.
I think companies' job is to try to figure out how can I create or maximize, is the word often used, shareholder value, given whatever circumstances surround me.
And those circumstances are both economic and they're also political and they're also regulatory.
But I do think one of the reasons that you see but just really a remarkable amount of volatility right now.
And you know, I said I wouldn't use this word, but I'll use
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