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Customer Value, Shareholder Wealth, Community Wellbeing

A Roadmap for Companies and Investors

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Explodes the EPS Myth once and for all
  • Posits a new business paradigm for the third millennium
  • Offers a comprehensive solution to the scourge of short-termism

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlv
  2. The Challenge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Clarifying the Goal

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 3-20
  3. The Understanding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. Some Important Truths

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 23-46
    3. A Bow Wave of Expected Economic Profits

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 47-70
    4. Two Joint and Mutually Reinforcing Objectives

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 71-79
    5. Creative Thinking and the Value Creation Mindset

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 81-95
  4. The Response

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
    2. An Overview of the Journey

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 99-108
    3. Valuing the Current Strategy

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 109-141
    4. The Systematic Pursuit of Higher Value Strategies

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 143-177
    5. Customer Value, Shareholder Wealth and Stakeholder Wellbeing

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 179-192
    6. Building an Enduring Institution

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 193-222
  5. The Legacy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
    2. An Organisation that Prospers Well into the Future

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 225-229
    3. Conclusion

      • Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider
      Pages 231-240
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 241-284

About this book

This book provides a roadmap for leaders of listed companies to follow in order to build enduring institutions that create value for customers and wealth for shareholders on an ongoing basis, in ways that also enhance the wellbeing of all other legitimate stakeholders – including the wider community and the environment.

Customer Value, Shareholder Wealth, Community Wellbeing is an inspirational work that confirms the very positive role that a more expansive, more inclusive and more conscious approach to business, can play within our society.

It incorporates a breakthrough in understanding in applied corporate finance and business economics centred on the Bow Wave of Expected Economic Profits.  This construct provides an economic underpinning for a new and more socially responsible business paradigm – demonstrating for the first time exactly how the performance produced by management in the market for their company’s products and services, translates into the capital market outcomes experienced by shareholders.   

Authors and Affiliations

  • The KBA Consulting Group , Melbourne, Australia

    Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider

About the authors

Denis Kilroy and Marvin Schneider are both career management consultants.  They met at value-based management pioneers Marakon Associates in the early 1990s, where Denis was a Partner and Marvin was a freshly-minted MBA.  Between them, they have more than fifty years’ experience advising the leadership teams of listed companies in Australasia, Europe and North America.

It was at Marakon that Denis began to develop the idea of adopting customer value creation and shareholder wealth creation as joint and mutually reinforcing objectives that could be pursued in tandem, in a way that also enhanced the wellbeing of the other stakeholders in a listed company. He left Marakon in 1994 in order to pursue this line of thinking.  In his new firm KBA, he was often told by clients that the ideas that he was working with were way ahead of their time.  

Marvin joined Denis at KBA in 2003, where they collaborated for a number of years on the first attempt to bring the EP Bow Wave concept to life.  But the market was not ready.   They revisited the initiative in 2011 and over the next four years, completed the development of the EP Bow Wave construct, incorporating TSR Alpha and the Pair of EP Bow Waves

This breakthrough in applied corporate finance and business economics now provides a complete economic underpinning for a new and more socially responsible business paradigm – focused on creating customer value, building shareholder wealth and enhancing community wellbeing.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Customer Value, Shareholder Wealth, Community Wellbeing

  • Book Subtitle: A Roadmap for Companies and Investors

  • Authors: Denis Kilroy, Marvin Schneider

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54774-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54773-2Published: 06 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85477-9Published: 10 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54774-9Published: 21 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLV, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 77 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility

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eBook USD 29.99
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Softcover Book USD 37.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 37.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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