Publications

February 1992 (Revised May 1995)
Supplement

CUC International, Inc. (B)

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy

Describes CUC's initial response to investors' concerns about the firm's accounting. Students are asked to evaluate this response. View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Business and Shareholder Relations

February 1992 (Revised May 1995)
Supplement

CUC International, Inc. (C)

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy

Describes analysts' and investors' reaction to CUC's initial response. View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Business and Shareholder Relations

November 1991
Case

Investor Relations at Work: Situations in the Financial Marketplace

By: Stephen A. Greyser

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Communication

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3 Oct 1991
Lecture

How are Changes in the Global Capital Markets Affecting Interaction between Shareholders and Corporations?

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Capital Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations

July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Background Note

Conflicting Responsibilities

By: Joseph L. Badaracco

Presents a framework for resolving issues in which managers' responsibilities--to shareholders, employees, other stakeholder groups, and to their own values and commitments in life--conflict with each other. The framework analyzes these issues in terms of duties,... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations

February 1991 (Revised June 1991)
Case

Raymond Jackson (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Professor Jackson is offered a spot on the slate of directors that Harold Simmons, Lockheed's largest shareholder, has nominated for Lockheed's board to oppose the slate nominated by Lockheed in the Spring, 1990 elections. Jackson must decide whether to join Simmons'... View Details

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Decisions; Voting; Governing and Advisory Boards; Alliances

Article

Shareholder Value Maximization and Product Market Competition

By: Julio J. Rotemberg and David S. Scharfstein

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April 1990
Case

Gillette vs. Coniston: Communications in a Proxy Fight

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Communication; Governing and Advisory Boards

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June 1989 (Revised July 1989)
Case

Coniston vs. Gillette: Communications in a Proxy Fight

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Communication; Governing and Advisory Boards

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October 1988
Case

Agrico, Inc.: A Software Dilemma

By: F. Warren McFarlan

An information systems vice president has one hour to make an ethical decision: should a software program, left inadvertently on the company's computer, be copied and stored? Copying the program would protect clients' assets, but it seems to violate the vendor... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Contracts; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Information Technology Industry