Shareholder Special Meetings - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2008 (Revised October 2010)
Case

Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Ryan Taliaferro

Bob Kelly, the new CEO of Mellon Financial, is considering the terms of a proposed "merger of equals" with The Bank of New York, just before the final Board meeting to approve the deal. The combination offers a great strategic fit, and the expected synergies are large.... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Equity; Banks and Banking; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Banking Industry; Pittsburgh

Citation

Educators

Purchase

26 Aug 2009
Op-Ed

Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior. It has no experience in such initiatives and proved itself incapable of forecasting demand associated with different incentive levels. And the auto industry hardly deserved View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto

05 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

on middle management During the 1980s and 1990s, middle managers became prime targets of large-scale downsizing at the behest of shareholder activists—yet the ranks of middle managers never really declined. Zhang’s data helps explain why.... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

24 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

small acknowledgments over the years, but not enough to move the needle. “Maybe a company says, ‘We’re going to have a support group of workers with special needs kids who can meet monthly in a conference... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually "clueless" about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

10 Jan 2007
HBS Case

The Challenge of Managing National Security

Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

23 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

furtively wedged between meetings and deadlines. Shifts to remote work and flexible hours during early pandemic lockdowns, for example, made care obligations less secretive. But it might not persist: About 50 percent of employers plan to... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

Teaching Interest

Creating the Modern Financial System

By: David A. Moss

Creating the Modern Financial System offers a vital perspective on finance and the financial system by exploring the historical development of key financial instruments and institutions worldwide. The premise of the course is that students will gain a richer and... View Details

09 Apr 2024
Book

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

rituals, like carving out time for coffee with colleagues once a week or kicking off team meetings by sharing weekend plans before jumping into work talk, report finding more meaning in their work, he says. After all, Norton says, rituals... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

specializes in the business of harnessing star power. Authentic boasted multiple fashion brands, such as Forever 21 and Aeropostale, and a growing fleet of celebrity “icons,” including living legends like Shaquille O’Neal and lasting... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

enterprise systems can be governed by a few structures, shown in Figure 2: Top management group; Board of directors or board of advisors; Family assembly and/or family council, and; Shareholders meeting... View Details

30 Apr 2024
Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

willing to approve continued sales of a drug known to be lethal to some customers in fulfilment of their assigned role to maximise value for shareholders (Armstrong, 1977, p. 204). And so on. Yet, the insights from this research and their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Feb 2022
Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

orchestra as a soloist just within reach. But suddenly, his performance started to worsen. No amount of practice or specialized training helped. In fact, the harder he raged against his decline, the faster it inevitably came. He took a... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

leaders may give expatriate assignments not to the best candidates but to people who speak certain languages. To hire and promote the best people, firms may need to provide training to meet global and local language needs. Fluency in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

layoffs. By the time Breton left the company in 2005 to serve as French Finance Minister, things were looking up: The company was turning a profit. 22,000 workers must go Didier Lombard stepped in as CEO later that year, promising View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

goal is not to identify the "best" program, but rather to lay out the range of innovations to meet the needs of heterogeneous potential savers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-075.pdf Cases & Course... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2018
Article

What Can Managers Privately Disclose to Investors?

By: Eugene F. Soltes

Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2000 created Regulation Fair Disclosure... View Details

Keywords: Disclosure Regulation; Information; Communication; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

Citation

Read Now

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

lending portfolio would have to move to the productive sector of the Bolivian economy by 2018, and these loans would have a controlled interest rate of 11.5%. How would BancoSol meet these targets, fulfill its mission, and remain... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

lower risk levels for banks that employ bank managers with higher equity stakes. Our evidence also suggests that external shareholders affect risk taking via directors representing their interests. We also demonstrate that regulation... View Details