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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
shareholder engagement: How can shareholders move the needle? One example that Shawn and I worked on was with CalSTRS, the California pension plan for educators. Following the increase in school shootings,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
short-term results with adherence to a long-term strategy and direction. At Cummins, we are driven by the concept of maximizing shareholder value -- but the question is, value over the next quarter or two, or over a longer period? Either... View Details
- 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
Ma, Yueran, and Andrei Shleifer. "The Invention of Corporate Governance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33710, April 2025.
- March 2023
- Case
Azenta Life Sciences: The Road to Transformation
By: Gary P. Pisano and Catherine Piner
When the Board brought Steve Schwartz in as President of Brooks Automation in 2010, they gave him a clear mission: strengthen the company’s core semiconductor equipment business and find a new industry to enter. Over the course of the next decade, Schwartz and the... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Market Entry and Exit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Segmentation; Technology Industry
Pisano, Gary P., and Catherine Piner. "Azenta Life Sciences: The Road to Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 623-066, March 2023.
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
two reasons for management failures to heed shareholder proposals for greater action on ESG issues: processes within the organization may not be sufficiently developed, and performance incentives may be misaligned. “I went back to the... View Details
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
Say on Pay (TN)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [407129]. View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
increasing shareholder value. When the alumni invest in our faculty — by funding professorships or supporting the activities of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, for example — they are supporting present needs while also... View Details
- 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
- September 1988
- Article
Earnings Information Conveyed by Dividend Initiations and Omissions
By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
Healy, Paul M., and Krishna G. Palepu. "Earnings Information Conveyed by Dividend Initiations and Omissions." Journal of Financial Economics 21, no. 2 (September 1988): 149–175.
- 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
- Web
About | Harvard Business School
since 1984. Christian is the largest shareholder and CEO of real estate firms Eiendomsspar and Victoria Eiendom. In addition to his Eiendomsspar responsibilities, Christian owns various properties, businesses, and museums in Oslo. In... View Details
- 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
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
income and a continuum of customer types. A discussion of the multi-product case is included in the appendix. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for structural estimation methods. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-030.pdf Does... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 1993
- Article
Complementarity of Prior Accounting Information: The Case of Stock Dividend Announcements
By: R. Banker, S. Das and S. Datar
Banker, R., S. Das, and S. Datar. "Complementarity of Prior Accounting Information: The Case of Stock Dividend Announcements." Accounting Review 68, no. 1 (January 1993): 28–47.
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
nondiscriminatory basis. The CEO has transformed Indus from a struggling startup with a monopolistic mindset into a customer-centric organization. He now wants to grow Indus. To achieve this, however, he needs to reconcile conflicting objectives among Indus's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
heavily in employees and the other focuses mainly on shareholders or customers," Paine says. A secondary category of ethical issues, she notes, involves questions arising from the actual M&A; transaction. "Some really vexing issues... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
A recent Bloomberg profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood (MBA 1999) offers an inside look at how the 16-year company veteran has worked to redefine the tech giant. Hood’s tenure as CFO began with an immediate challenge, as detailed in the Bloomberg piece: Once Nadella took... View Details
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
chunk of potential managerial wealth, and shareholders can remain assured that incentives are well aligned. Managers will not, however, know if they should try to accelerate earnings or delay them. They will not know what stock price they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
faces. Another is busting convention. Most South Korean corporations are owner-operated, with shareholders voting with the owner practically all the time. Now, “more and more professionals are managing companies,” Yu explains. And like... View Details