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In a span of 35 years, the field of corporate finance finally found a firm footing. Before 1937, when within a year John Burr Williams and Ronald Coase each showed how corporate value is greater than the sum of its assets, the corporation was viewed as something of a mystery. Financial analysts understood that value was created, but few could really articulate precisely how.
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Read, C. (2015). Conclusions. In: The Corporate Financiers. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137341280_37
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