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Strategic Discipline: Building Business Models That Maximize Economic Profit

How Leading Firms Like Apple Harness Pricing Power and Ecosystem Control to Create Real Value In today’s fiercely competitive global economy, growth alone is no longer enough. Businesses must grow intelligently, profitably, and with capital discipline. This is where strategic discipline becomes the cornerstone of value creation. It is not just about expanding operations or...

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The Economic Profit Playbook for Caribbean Enterprises

July 2, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Unlocking Resilience and Growth with Smarter Performance Metrics In a region as dynamic and diverse as the Caribbean, enterprises face unique challenges: small market sizes, high input costs, vulnerability to external shocks, and limited access to capital. In this environment, traditional profit metrics can offer an incomplete or even misleading view of business performance. That’s...

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Valuation Through the Lens of Economic Profit: What Investors Should Watch

July 2, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the investment world, identifying a business that looks good on paper versus one that actually creates value is often a matter of perspective. Traditional valuation methods, based on earnings multiples or discounted cash flows, provide useful insights—but they can miss a crucial signal: Is the business earning more than its capital costs? This is...

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Why Economic Profit Should Be Every CEO’s North Star

July 2, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

In an age of relentless disruption, investor scrutiny, and competitive complexity, CEOs are under immense pressure to deliver more than just top-line growth or net income. They must deliver sustainable value—not just for shareholders, but for the broader ecosystem of stakeholders. In this quest, one metric stands above the rest: Economic Profit. Economic profit is...

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Dividends and Buybacks: How Capital Allocation Skews TSR

July 1, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the pursuit of maximizing shareholder value, many companies lean heavily on tools like dividends and stock buybacks. These actions are often well-received by investors and can have a direct impact on Total Shareholder Return (TSR) — the popular metric that combines stock appreciation and dividends into one figure. But beneath the surface, these capital...

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Beyond TSR: Why COSR Tells a Clearer Story

July 1, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

In our previous article, we uncovered how Total Shareholder Return (TSR) — despite being the dominant performance metric for public companies — often fails to accurately reflect a firm’s true operational success. Now, we turn our attention to a more robust and revealing performance measure: Core Operating Shareholder Return (COSR). In this article, Dawgen Global...

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TSR Demystified: A Misleading Metric for Performance Evaluation

July 1, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the world of corporate finance and investor relations, Total Shareholder Return (TSR) has long been the dominant metric for assessing a company’s performance. It is simple, intuitive, and widely used by boards, investors, and compensation committees. However, as capital markets evolve and scrutiny over performance metrics intensifies, a growing body of evidence suggests that...

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Understanding Jamaica’s Capital Allowance Regime

December 14, 2024by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Capital Allowance Regime in Jamaica plays a pivotal role in the nation’s income tax framework, allowing businesses to recover costs incurred from investments in specified assets. This regime underwent significant reform with the implementation of the Fiscal Incentives (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, effective January 1, 2014, which amended the First Schedule of the Income Tax...

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Crafting a Winning Corporate Strategy for Long-Term Success: Dawgen Global’s Approach

October 7, 2024by Dr Dawkins Brown

Corporate strategy is more than just a roadmap for organizational growth—it’s the art of aligning the various elements of an enterprise to ensure that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. At Dawgen Global, our consulting team helps companies find their strategic “sweet spot,” unlocking value for sustained success and growth. Our...

Strategic Discipline: Building Business Models That Maximize Economic Profit

The Economic Profit Playbook for Caribbean Enterprises

Valuation Through the Lens of Economic Profit: What Investors Should Watch

Why Economic Profit Should Be Every CEO’s North Star

Dividends and Buybacks: How Capital Allocation Skews TSR

Beyond TSR: Why COSR Tells a Clearer Story

TSR Demystified: A Misleading Metric for Performance Evaluation

Understanding Jamaica’s Capital Allowance Regime

Crafting a Winning Corporate Strategy for Long-Term Success: Dawgen Global’s Approach

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