Shareholders Care About More Than Just Profits

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Posted: May 14, 2018
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Oliver Hart is a professor of economics at Harvard University. Hart won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2016 for his work in contract theory and is the author of "Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure." Hart sat down with Business Insider's Sara Silverstein at UBS's Nobel Perspectives Live event in Brooklyn.

In this interview, Hart discusses his most recent paper "Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market Value." He says that profit maximization is important to shareholders, but it's not the only thing they care about.

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