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  • 01 Aug 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

shareholders into a more active participative role, CEO compensation along with other governance challenges such as agency issues will continue to plague companies." Julie Dotson-Shaffer put it most succinctly: "Every contract... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

500 boards as an empirical context, this study shows that the presence of directors who lack top-level experience but own large shareholdings is negatively associated with firm value, an effect that increases in the number of such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

created so much financial devastation. The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave (MBA ’82) (Portfolio) In an industry built on celebrity, media mogul megalomania has run rampant... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

    Duane L. Burnham

    During Burnham’s ten years as CEO, Abbott’s return to shareholders exceeded 20% per year. Burnham invested in research and development and maintained strict financial control over the company’s operations. View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare
    • 01 Dec 2018
    • News

    Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term

    Transatomic Power in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a company that aims to revolutionize the nuclear energy industry. In addition, participants discuss alternative governance styles and shareholder value maximization in the case on King Arthur... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2004
    • News

    Reforming Company Boards

    structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market valuations. The truth has been... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Services
    • 05 Apr 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

    shareholders of acquired companies. On the other hand, short-term value is more often destroyed than created for shareholders of acquiring organizations. There are conflicting conclusions about whether... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • August 2019 (Revised August 2022)
    • Case

    Baroo (A): Pet Concierge

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Susie L. Ma
    Baroo CEO Lindsay Hyde was facing unrest from the board of her pet services startup in August 2017. One board member (and lead investor) was alarmed that Baroo’s growth was slowing while its appetite for funding was accelerating. Hyde wanted to hit the gas and continue... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Failure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Opportunities; Strategy; Service Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • 19 Jul 2016
    • First Look

    July 19, 2016

    ecosystem whose interests were not aligned. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51375 Shareholder Activism on Sustainability Issues By: Grewal, Jody, George Serafeim, and Aaron Yoon Abstract—Shareholder... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2010
    • News

    Reinventing the Annual Report

    and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can shareholders and other stakeholders know if a company’s commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create value... View Details
    Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
    • 11 Jul 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Future of Boards

    maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence” Topics tackled include how boards can most effectively oversee company strategy, CEO succession, and executive compensation. Also considered... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    The Political Polarization of Corporate America

    By: Vyacheslav Fos, Elisabeth Kempf and Margarita Tsoutsoura
    U.S. executives are increasingly segregating by political party. We establish this new fact using political affiliations from voter registration records for top executives of S&P 1500 firms between 2008 and 2022. We identify key drivers of this trend, including... View Details
    Keywords: Political Polarization; Partisanship; Executives; Government and Politics; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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    • 01 Sep 2008
    • News

    Negative Ad Power

    increase sales and shareholder value. Coke and Pepsi both want to increase the amount of carbonated soft drinks that we consume. If Pepsi and Coke go after each other in advertising, they will turn off consumers and reduce demand for both... View Details
    Keywords: John A. Quelch;Katherine E. Jocz; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • February 2011 (Revised April 2012)
    • Teaching Note

    Braddock Industries, Inc. (TN)

    By: William E. Fruhan
    Teaching Note for 211061. View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Economics; Business Units; Performance Evaluation
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    • November 2008
    • Case

    Malaysia Airlines (A)

    In the first six weeks on the job, the new CEO of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has developed an ambitious turnaround plan, including aggressive job cuts and route eliminations, but MAS's largest shareholder, Khazanah Nacional, the sovereign wealth fund, is tasked with... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Economic Growth; Investment Funds; Sovereign Finance; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Air Transportation Industry; Malaysia
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    • 05 Mar 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: March 5

    discussed in terms of strategic and non-strategic linguistic cues.   Working PapersFinding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value Authors:Bertoneche, Marc L., and Cornis Van der Lugt... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 25

    more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Stephen M. Case

      Case, the founder, has built America Online into the world’s largest online service provider with over 20 million members, and services which include commerce, e-mail, chat, and Internet access. In 1998, America Online’s revenues were $3.3 billion and total annualized... View Details
      Keywords: Communications
      • 01 Mar 2005
      • News

      Ideas: Books

      plantations to local growers, transforming itself into a marketing company. The firm’s shareholders opted for lower risks but also lower profits. Multinationals and Global Capitalism by Geoffrey Jones (Oxford University Press) Professor... View Details
      Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
      • 29 Apr 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

      to question, debate, and even oppose initiatives with which they disagree—and often do so. Corporate CEOs also tend to deal with their shareholders periodically and at a distance. True, they have to talk with analysts at least quarterly,... View Details
      Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney