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- 04 May 2017
- News
The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
Where ESG Fails
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
are, what are you good at? What are you interested in? What are your passions? Where do you think you can add value to an organization? And I touch on the general topic of, are you a startup person and what does it mean to work in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner
Does that influence its working atmosphere? Probably. It's much less political and more collaborative. Power is not much of an ingredient in the day-to-day activities here, but values are. But I don't know what degree of that is women and... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
That is why we introduced pep+ (PepsiCo Positive), our strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create value for our shareholders and all our stakeholders.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
speaks to Ranjay Gulati—his former college classmate and his eventual HBS Executive Education professor—about how Panera has faced the myriad challenges of the pandemic, the leadership values that guide him, and how a deep, personal loss... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
What are shareholders good for? Maybe not as much as most people think. Basically, shareholders are supposed to provide three functions: money, information, and discipline. Let's examine each. Money. In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
one that has little chance of getting better with the current theories in place,” Martin writes. Clearly, maximizing shareholder value has not worked and needs to be replaced. The problem as Martin sees it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Relationships as Valuable Assets, by Robert C. Blattberg, Gary Getz, and Jacquelyn S. Thomas, is the first book to provide a unifying framework and practical tools for measuring customer value — the potential profitability of each... View Details
- 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 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can shareholders and other stakeholders know if a company’s commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
about how the current business scene is heavily skewed toward the shareholder. "Certainly the shareholder is important," he notes. "However, the shareholder role has gotten out of balance with the other... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
Since when do the taxman and the shareholder agree? IRS Commissioner Mark Everson and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox (MBA 1976) have advanced a simple, but controversial proposal. Companies would be required to disclose how much they pay in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
concerned about what I should do with my life. I knew I wanted a career in business, but it wasn't until I was at HBS that I grasped that business could be a force for good in society. We were constantly reminded of the importance of moral View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
analyze why such partnerships occur and show how they are improving social conditions across Latin America as well as creating value for businesses. The Social Enterprise Knowledge Network is a collaboration among HBS, the AVINA... 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
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
words of Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics and an adviser to the study, “By far the most important factor in that growth is Wal-Mart.” Second, most of the value created by the company is actually pocketed by its customers in the... 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a thoughtful pause: Why can’t we... View Details