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- April 1995
- Teaching Note
EMC Corporation: Response to Shareholder Litigation (Case Series) TN
By: Josh Lerner
Teaching Note for (9-294-070) and (9-294-071). View Details
- 16 May 2019
- Panel Discussion
Under Pressure: Directors in an Era of Shareholder Primacy
By: Lynn S. Paine
- January 12, 2017
- Blog Post
Short-Termism and Shareholder Payouts: Getting Corporate Capital Flows Right
By: Jesse Fried and Charles CY Wang
Fried, Jesse, and Charles CY Wang. "Short-Termism and Shareholder Payouts: Getting Corporate Capital Flows Right." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (January 12, 2017). https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/01/12/short-termism-and-shareholder-payouts-getting-corporate-capital-flows-right/.
- 2005
- Chapter
Shareholder Primacy Is a Choice, Not a Legal Mandate
By: Constance E. Bagley
Bagley, Constance E. "Shareholder Primacy Is a Choice, Not a Legal Mandate." In The Accountable Corporation, Vol. 1: Corporate Governance, edited by Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson. Praeger, 2005.
- 11 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge
- Editorial
ExxonMobil's Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues
By: George Serafeim and Sakis Kotsantonis
Serafeim, George, and Sakis Kotsantonis. "ExxonMobil's Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 7, 2017).
- Article
The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans
By: Christopher S. Armstrong, Ian D. Gow and David F. Larcker
Armstrong, Christopher S., Ian D. Gow, and David F. Larcker. "The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans." Journal of Accounting Research 51, no. 5 (December 2013): 909–950.
- April 2015
- Teaching Note
SecondMarket - Providing Liquidity for Shareholders of Privately Held iContact
By: Ramana Nanda
- 2015
- Working Paper
Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov
By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value-reducing. In a recent response paper, Amihud and Stoyanov (2015) “contest” our results. They... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Boards; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Firm Value; Agency Costs; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware
Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-097, February 2016.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Finding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value
By: Marc L Bertoneche and Cornis van der Lugt
The start of the 2000s saw a flurry of international publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organisations... View Details
Bertoneche, Marc L., and Cornis van der Lugt. "Finding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-072, February 2013.
- Article
Laws versus Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950
By: Aldo Musacchio
This article examines some of the institutional conditions that facilitated the development of equity markets in Brazil. A critical factor was the addition of protections for investors to corporate bylaws, which enabled relatively large corporations in Brazil to... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership Stake; Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Laws versus Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950." Business History Review 82, no. 3 (Fall 2008): 445–473.
- 10 Jun 2022
- Lecture
Shareholders vs. Stakeholders: Who Is Winning the Battle for Corporate Governance?
By: Lynn S. Paine
- December 2012
- Article
Shareholder's Value?: Reassessing Investors' Functions
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Justin Fox
This article examines the three functions shareholders are supposed to provide: money, information, and discipline. View Details
Lorsch, Jay W., and Justin Fox. "Shareholder's Value? Reassessing Investors' Functions." HBS Alumni Bulletin 88, no. 4 (December 2012): 22.
- April 2023
- Case
Strive Asset Management
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia
Strive Asset Management, which launched in 2022, was actively targeting several leading U.S. companies in the upcoming 2023 proxy voting season to stop acquiescing to those large asset managers and other institutional shareholders who were pressing those companies to... View Details
- January 2013
- Case
Say on Pay at The Walt Disney Company
By: Ian D. Gow and Gaizka Ormazabal
This case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger. Leading proxy advisory firms were recommending that shareholders reject the proposed compensation. View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Votes; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
Gow, Ian D., and Gaizka Ormazabal. "Say on Pay at The Walt Disney Company." Harvard Business School Case 113-052, January 2013.
- May 2025
- Teaching Plan
Bed Bath & Beyond: The New Strategy to Drive Shareholder Value
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
- December 2021
- Supplement
Bed Bath & Beyond: The New Strategy to Drive Shareholder Value
By: Benjamin C. Esty
- 14 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950
Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
- December 2013
- Article
How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
The well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a natural experiment... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Board; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Proxy Fight; Tobin's; Firm Value; Agency Cost; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance
Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Journal of Financial Economics 110, no. 3 (December 2013): 627–641.
- April 2015 (Revised July 2015)
- Case
Proxy Access at Whole Foods
By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
Proxy access grants shareholders meeting certain ownership requirements the right to nominate directors for election to the board without going through a typical proxy contest. In August 2010 the SEC approved a rule granting proxy access for shareholders meeting... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Proxy Advisor; Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Voting; Shareholder Votes; Proxy Battle; Institutional Change; Institutional Investing; Business and Shareholder Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; North America
Lorsch, Jay, and Emily McTague. "Proxy Access at Whole Foods." Harvard Business School Case 415-073, April 2015. (Revised July 2015.)