Profits Without Prosperity (Harvard Business Review)
by William Lazonick
William Lazonick, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, writes about how executives are using massive stock buybacks to manipulate share prices and boost their own pay - at great cost to innovation and employment.
This article was first published in the September 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review.
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