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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
small group of private-equity investors, then there would have been few employee shareholders or any kind of shareholders at risk. Yes, the board failed all Enron stakeholders. Many of the private-equity... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday effects, to name just a few... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
familiar business imperative of creating value. "A firm that delivers cash to shareholders only by selling off assets is not sustainable," he says, "and neither is a firm that creates accounting profits only by liquidating natural capital... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
individual citizens are protected. Tracing governmental involvement in risk management to the early 19th century, Moss shows how government institutions have served to promote capitalism and economic growth by shifting risk from View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
do you hope will be the contribution of the School in reimagining capitalism under your leadership? —Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992) When I think about stakeholder capitalism, I think about supporting customers, suppliers, employees, and communities. Doing so is consistent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Kanter contends that vanguard companies deliver what their customers want better than their competitors do, thereby providing the financial success shareholders demand and the social conscience demanded by the new generation of managers.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
always insist on the highest standards. Indian companies had begun to wake up to this problem even before the crisis in corporate America. They have also observed how shareholder value multiplies in those Indian companies that adhere to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
already very effective political actors to use some of that influence, not just on behalf of their own interests and their shareholders interests, but to use that influence on behalf of their employees, their communities and society as a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
making specialized hospital beds and power tools for orthopedic surgeons. It provides a case study of Elfers's dictum that the venture firm's forte should always be "strong support of portfolio companies and long-term goals of building View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
become wellsprings for really creative ideas on how to deliver for shareholders and also to do the right thing for the environment. So yes, I’m cautiously optimistic. View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock options. During the bull market years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out graduates fixated on View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Failde (MBA 1985) and May Chao (MBA 1985) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Beliefs, Behaviors, and Results: The Chief Executive's Guide to Delivering Superior Shareholder Value by Scott Gillis (MBA 1988), Lee Mergy, and Joe... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
but obviously you always need to be focusing on a real business, a real cash flow. You have a responsibility for families of shareholders and all stakeholders involved. Values are the most important when you are in any organization and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
understand that our connected style can help us win all the deals we want and get all the business results our shareholders want, that’s really the broad concept here.” Nor has growth stymied the Vision Community exercise. It remains... View Details
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- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
biggest opportunity I’ve ever seen to do enormous good and simultaneously create enormous shareholder value,” said Bushkin. “There are too few opportunities to do something this important.” (Published December 2014) View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
environment," he writes. "I have been more concerned in this book with a manager's responsibilities to shareholders and to his or her own intellectual integrity." Reinhardt asserts that discussions of business and the environment have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
Altiostar Networks, Inc. Dahod outside his Tewksbury, MA, office “The best way to deliver on shareholder value is not to focus on shareholder value. Focus on meeting customer needs and taking care of... View Details