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  • November 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Module Note

Responsibilities to Investors (Abridged)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Joseph L. Badaracco
This note focuses on managers’ responsibilities—economic, legal, and ethical—to investors. In capitalist and some socialist economies, these responsibilities traditionally have been grounded in fiduciary duties and are typically part of the common law or statutory law... View Details
Keywords: Responsibilities To Investors; Investors; Responsibility; Business and Shareholder Relations; Management; Ethics
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  • Editorial

Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors

By: Christina Rehnberg, George Serafeim and Brian Tomlinson
Rather than requiring less short-term information, the key to combating short-termism is to encourage companies to share more information about their long-term plans. Analysis of companies that have done so suggests that long-term plans are not mere marketing... View Details
Keywords: CEO; Investor Relations; Disclosure; Long-term Growth; Investing; Business and Shareholder Relations; Strategy; Corporate Disclosure
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  • 25 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 25

the industry. The lessons of entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders from the airlines can be applied to understanding any industry's evolution. Board of Directors' Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

interests of shareholders alone or, those of all stakeholders, including employees and customers? Moris Simson (HBS ISMP 91) Mitel Corporation Those taking issue with these premises generally saw the company's leadership with the support... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Michael Dell

    In 1992, Dell, at 27 years of age, became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Dell revolutionized the retail computer industry by instituting a direct sales approach, where the customer places their customized order via phone or the internet directly with Dell... View Details
    Keywords: Computers & Electronics
    • 08 Nov 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes

    Keywords: by Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo, and Gwen Yu
    • 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
    Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • 17 Jul 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market

    Keywords: by Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla

      David W. Johnson

      Employing an aggressive streamlining strategy, Johnson is credited with creating Campbell Soup Company’s successful turnaround. Under his leadership, Campbell became one of the most profitable consumer products companies in the United States. His laser focus on... View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco

        Ralph S. Larsen

        Larsen reorganized J&J and managed its costs in order to improve its efficiency and reduce operating expenses. Between 1994-1999, the annual operating costs were reduced by $2 billion, which enabled J&J to compete aggressively in the personal care market.... View Details
        Keywords: Healthcare

          Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

          Under pressure to break-up IBM, Gerstner instead went against the tide of expectation and kept IBM in one piece. He went on to make IBM more competitive by announcing downsizing and a new vision for the company called network computing/e-business. During the period of... View Details
          Keywords: Computers & Electronics
          • 18 Jul 2005
          • Research & Ideas

          Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

          could be welcome. Moreover, if shareholders are the recipients of all this value, then this would just be a transfer from tax authorities to shareholders. Unfortunately, the evidence is more mixed on the degree to which View Details
          Keywords: by Ann Cullen
          • 25 Feb 2002
          • Research & Ideas

          MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

          shareholders in both state and private enterprises." No Single Asian Market Mark Newman, vice president and CFO for GM Shanghai, the largest Sino-U.S. joint venture, presented statistics that clarified the corporation's significant... View Details
          Keywords: by Julia Hanna
          • 24 Apr 2014
          • News

          A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit

          to entrepreneurs ‘We've been where you're going,’ and really mean it.” Bowes was also the founding shareholder of Amgen and its first chairman and treasurer. Prior to founding USVP, he had success as a venture capitalist with companies... 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
          • September 1988
          • Article

          Earnings Information Conveyed by Dividend Initiations and Omissions

          By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
          Keywords: Information; Money; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Earnings
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          • 2025
          • Working Paper

          The Invention of Corporate Governance

          By: Yueran Ma and Andrei Shleifer
          The analysis of corporate governance begins with a central feature of modern capitalism—the separation of ownership and control in large corporations—first empirically documented by Berle and Means (1932). Such separation entails several agency problems reflecting... View Details
          Keywords: Corporate Governance; Law; Business and Shareholder Relations
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          • Web

          George F. Baker - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

          of his youth on his aunt’s farm in Massachusetts. At the age of twenty-three, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank (now Citibank), which under his guidance remained a dependable institution... View Details
          • November 2005 (Revised August 2006)
          • Case

          Investor Relations at TOTAL

          By: Gregory S. Miller, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
          Examines investor relations and financial communications in a large company with a diverse group of financial stakeholders. Total is an "energy major" based in Paris, France. The importance of its product and its impact on economies and environments combine with the... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Reporting; Business and Shareholder Relations; Communication Strategy; Paris
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            Henry Wendt

            In his term as CEO of the pharmaceutical giant, Wendt focused on a “3 point strategy” to help strengthen the business. His strategy consisted of increasing support of SmithKline’s best products, such as Tagamet, weeding out other unprofitable drugs, and increasing... View Details
            Keywords: Healthcare