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Re:Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing by orwin on Saturday April 20, 2024 @07:34PM (#40101955)
Aren't stock price 'just' a performance indicator, all thing considered?

Hence, aren't people always talking about improving the stock price just targeting the metrics instead of focusing on the interesting part?

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Re:Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing by worik on Saturday April 20, 2024 @07:42PM (#40102003)
> Aren't stock price 'just' a performance indicator, all thing considered?

That is a hypothesis from the 1990s. Turns out that incentives need to be better aligned over time than what stock prices can manage

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Re:Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing by FrankWilhoit on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:58AM (#40105846)
Saying that "incentives need to be better aligned" is like saying that the Sun is more than fifty miles up in the sky: (A) it is technically true, and (B) there are people who don't believe it.
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Re:Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing by arp242 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @06:24PM (#40109753)
More like whatever someone is willing to pay for it. There is correlation with performance, but it's far far from perfect, especially the kind of performance we're talking about here (long-term technical foundations).

People $4,000 for brand-name Whatever™ designer clothes. It's not really worth $4,000 in any real sense, other than what someone is willing to pay for it.

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