Shareholder - Publications - Faculty & Research

Bed Bath & Beyond: The New Strategy Drive Shareholder Value

This case analyzes the creation, loss, and attempted re-creation of competitive advantage. At one time, Bed Bath & Beyond was one of the most successful specialty retailers in the United States-it's growth and profit margins far exceeded rates at peer... View Details

1992
Working Paper

Consequences of Leveraged Shareholders Payouts: Defensive Voluntary Recapitalization

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Karen H. Wruck

Citation

12 Nov 2014
News

Whalen: Dow Should Give Money Back to Shareholders

May 2015
Case

Shareholder Issues over Ten Generations at De Kuyper

By: John A. Davis and Courtney Collette

Keywords: Family Business

Citation

Educators

Purchase

28 May 2009
News

Goldman Shareholders Suffered as Blankfein Earned $43 Million

1997
Other Unpublished Work

Maximizing Corporate Shareholder Value Using Risk Profile Dynamics

By: Marc L Bertoneche and Samir Asaf

Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management

Citation

01 Sep 2006
News

Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value, Alfred Rappaport

Keywords: Alfred Rappaport

30 Nov 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU

Keywords: by Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang

04 Aug 2022
News

Restoring Shareholder Confidence When Your Stock Is Down

2009
Article

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Priority of Shareholders

By: Nien-he Hsieh

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations

Citation

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February 2013
Article

Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

By: Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian and Daniel B. Bergstresser

We use the Business Roundtable's challenge to the SEC's 2010 proxy access rule as a natural experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations

October 27, 2020
Blog Post

Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU

By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang

Citation

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06 Jun 2023
News

The Opioid Crisis, CEO Pay, and Shareholder Activism

19 Aug 2019
News

Shareholder Value Is No Longer Everything, Top C.E.O.s Say

February 2006
Article

Creating Organizational Success for Your CEO and Your Shareholders

By: Blythe J. McGarvie and Eleanor Bloxham

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2008
Working Paper

Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950

By: Aldo Musacchio

The early development of large multidivisional corporations in Latin America required much more than capable managers, new technologies, and large markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Governance Controls; Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Ownership Stake; Brazil

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July–August 2012
Article

What Good Are Shareholders?

By: Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch

The article looks at the role outside shareholders play in corporate governance in the U.S., and the relationship between companies' shareholders and managers, as of 2012. It recounts the shift beginning in the 1970s toward shareholders claiming an increasing amount of... View Details

Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; United States

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