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  • November 2013 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Valuing Yahoo! in 2013

By: Luis M. Viceira and Atul Khosla
In late July 2013, Danielle Engle, Managing Director of Clairemont Capital, was contemplating what to do about a large investment her fund had in the stock of Yahoo! Inc. In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Decision Making; Investment Activism; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation
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  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

Building on previous theories of how social activists inspire field-level change, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to cooperate with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

executives who were at Olympus while the scandal occurred. Purchase this supplement:http://hbr.org/search/413075-PDF-ENG Brink's Company: Activists Push for a Spin-off Suraj Srinivasan, Aldo Sesia, and Amy KaserHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Opportunity Partners

By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing hedge fund and prominent activist investor, has taken a position in a Mexico-based closed-end fund. Following a hard-fought proxy contest in which he advocated for management to eliminate the fund's substantial discount,... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Financial Services Industry; Mexico
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  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

by a strong shareholder value imperative ('value-based' ERM), the other corresponding to the demands of the risk-based internal control imperative ('holistic' ERM). The paper explains the differences in the two risk management mixes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

shareholders longer when they have board seats, with holding periods consistent with conventional notions of "long-term" institutional investors. As in prior research, we find positive announcement-period returns of around 4% to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • November 2019
  • Article

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

By: Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani and Carlo Sommavilla
This paper shows that the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then... View Details
Keywords: Broker Networks; Institutional Investors; Asset Prices; Business and Shareholder Relations; Institutional Investing; Information; Knowledge Dissemination; Financial Markets; Asset Pricing
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  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

activism are high for the subset of targets that are acquired ex-post, but not detectably different from zero for targets that remain independent a year after the initial activist request. Announcement returns show a similar pattern.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly visible proxy fight with prolific activist investor Daniel Loeb of hedge fund Third Point. Since that time, Loeb and his colleagues had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

as servers, consulting, and software-as-a-service) and now claimed he needed to take the company private to do so. By the summer of 2013, the Dell board and its shareholders would have to decide whether to accept his offer to take the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

from that.” The new inventory system was actually something Whole Foods had started to implement before the Amazon deal, pressured by activist shareholders who had seen the grocer’s stock and sales margins... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

equity firm, Silver Lake Partners, have made an offer for the company, which Dell Inc.'s board has accepted. The deal requires the vote of a majority of shareholders. Southeastern Asset Management, an investment firm and Dell Inc.'s second largest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

methods. Myth Number 1: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs reduce returns on capital and long-run shareholder value. Reality: Companies committed to ESG are finding competitive advantages in product, labor, and capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

Polman immediately wheeled into action, convincing KHC to drop its bid two days later. Then he announced seven bold moves to enhance shareholder value without compromising the company’s ambitious long-term plans. In comparison, Kraft CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t come to his post with an activist agenda, yet when law enforcement officials began pressuring the company to hand over iPhone users’ data without their permission, Cook took what he believed was a moral stance to... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

contribute to society in meaningful ways, not just profit from it. They believed that organization had to benefit all stakeholders: their customers, employees, shareholders, and communities and that this approach would result in sustained increases in revenues,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • 15 Jul 2019
    • Book

    Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

    or as an effort of managers to massage metrics. The salutary effects of activist investors can be appreciated, just as one also appreciates the information and incentive problems that plague their money management industry. The channeling... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 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. Climate action across our supply... View Details
    • 12 Mar 2018
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

    capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, and activist investors... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Banking