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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
inversions are often not greeted with a positive price reaction. In short, the view that tax avoidance is simply a net transfer of value from the state to shareholders is complicated by the agency problem... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
In his words, "As long as shareholder value maximization is the sole focus of Boards in a capitalistic context, objectivity in judgment is at risk: putting shareholders... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
case explores maximizing shareholder value as a goal in executive decision making. Over a period of nine years, three different Pfizer CEOs make critical decisions intended to increase View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- Fast Answer
First time investments in private equity and M&A.
Placements section select Valuations In the window Screening Criteria: Transaction Valuations, set the value to "= 1" Click add criteria Add other filters date and those listed under Private Placement Transaction... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence” Topics tackled include how boards can most effectively oversee company strategy, CEO succession, and executive... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- October 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Teaching Note
BWX Technologies
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Yuan Zou
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-071. View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
shareholders into a more active participative role, CEO compensation along with other governance challenges such as agency issues will continue to plague companies." Julie Dotson-Shaffer put it most succinctly: "Every contract... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
and career choices. Graduating from IIT Kharagpur, I decided to join Schlumberger – the world’s largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger, founded in 1926, in many ways reminded me of Tata Steel, a company that cares for its people while returning View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
overlap between NGO issues and firm behavior. Where can a firm maximize shareholder value and appease (or even advance the cause of) an NGO? Finally, firms might consider how they can preempt, or proactively... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
during the class period. Named directors receive more negative recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a proxy advisory firm, and significantly more negative votes from shareholders... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
Kay puts it, "The mistake is to make inferences about the relationships between outcomes and processes when we cannot observe and do not understand the processes themselves." The argument is that those things that contribute to long-term View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 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
- February 2011 (Revised April 2012)
- Teaching Note
Braddock Industries, Inc. (TN)
Teaching Note for 211061. View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
degree’s relevance, asserting that programs have drifted too far into theory that has relatively little use in practice. And they fault business schools for turning out graduates fixated on shareholder value... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
has enough leverage to practice it. Boards of directors play an important role in championing the cause of stakeholders of all kinds. DF in AZ put it this way: “If a company promises a fundamental shift towards shareholder capitalism but... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
owners opted for an IPO in March 2000. Valued at 400 million Rand on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, its shareholders included about 1,000 of the company's security guards. From Ipo To Acquisition "An... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 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