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  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth

a dual purpose. First, to help companies build loyalty with employees and customers and to introduce individuals to share ownership. In addition to receiving share rewards, Upstreet users can buy shares on the Australian and New York View Details
Keywords: entrepreneurship; stock ownership; customer rewards; employee retention; financial literacy; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Jul 2010
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Two cheers for Sarbanes-Oxley

  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

recalls his father asking. That question stayed with Pete Stavros. There had to be a better way. Early in his career as an investor, Stavros was part of a deal with a company that had an employee stock View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

implementing successful transformations. In this book he examines the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change. Why focus on urgency? Without it, any change effort is doomed. The... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • 01 Dec 1998
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Short Takes

Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 10 Jul 2014
  • News

Harpoon Brewery CEO Steps Aside, Turns Stake over to Employees

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

An Electrifying Tale

fire alarm, security, and data lines — which is expected to grow to $10 million. For the employees, a stock ownership plan is in the works. “I want it to be a flourishing company that I’ll feel really proud... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Capitalism’s False Mantra

Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

ownership by dir-ectors. Stobaugh chaired the 1995 National Asso-ciation of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission, which recommended changes in the selection and compensation of boards, including setting View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

shareholder engagement: How can shareholders move the needle? One example that Shawn and I worked on was with CalSTRS, the California pension plan for educators. Following the increase in school shootings, there was a lot of pressure on CalSTRS to get rid of its View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

America the Difficult

bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

American Dream

treasurer. Last fall, the two brothers consolidated stock in the business between them after buying out the stakes of other family members. “I concentrate on the overall experience of our business with special attention to the retail... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy and affordable for people of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy

recent poll by the Investor Responsibility Research Center, the average dollar value of stock held by directors of companies with stock ownership guidelines (only 20 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance
  • 01 Aug 2001
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Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)

that board members of the best-performing companies frequently owned substantial amounts of stock in the firms they oversaw. In 1995, he chaired the Blue Ribbon Commission of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), whose... View Details
Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Who Are We?

annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

requirements for equity ownership by directors, and bylaws should require them. The “play money” distributed in the form of stock options and gifts of restricted stock should... View Details
Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance
  • 01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ); undersecretary of state in Henry Kissinger’s State Department; founding dean of the Yale School of Management; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; chairman, president, and... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate

forming a new national stock exchange, leading early IPOs of Indian companies like Wipro and Infosys, and overseeing early diversity and inclusion initiatives in her role as head of HSBC India. After retiring in 2015, Kidwai co-founded... View Details
Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
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