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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

shareholders as well as other interested stakeholders with rather elaborate information on the company's operations and strategic activities during the preceding fiscal year. However, in the last two decades and in addition to these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

O for organizational capabilities). Chief executive officers who employ Theory E are driven by one thing: increasing shareholder value. They often conclude that the way to generate the best shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative total shareholder return (rTSR) is increasingly used to incentivize and evaluate managers. Although... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • August 2005
  • Background Note

Dual Class Share Companies

By: Samuel L. Hayes III, Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
Provides a brief historical overview of dual class share companies in the United States, focusing on the New York Stock Exchange's evolving position on dual class structures since the 1920s, the impact of hostile takeovers on their use since the 1980s, and recent... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Debates; Capital Structure; Equity; Business History; Law; Organizational Structure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Perspective; Europe; United States
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  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information
  • October 2017
  • Supplement

Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)

By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case.

Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

Brian Hall: Checks and Balances In the wake of these events afflicting corporate America, I find I’ m thinking harder about what I’ m teaching in terms of creating shareholder value. I’ ve always been a big proponent of the idea that... View Details
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

wishful or insular thinking that can intensify their environmental problems and cost their shareholders unnecessary money. These are some of the common pitfalls: Letting business interests sway your opinion of scientific and economic... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

participants, the income earned from honey production often makes the difference between living below or above the poverty line. When not helping his fellow Kenyans boost their incomes and satisfy their palates, Keshavjee also makes sure they look sharp: He is the... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

KPMG for Mayor!

or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise? In a word: taxes. Voters in... View Details
Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 02 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

built up a strong retail market share in the U.S., not under the RBS brand, but through a series of acquisitions of regional (not national) banks. RBS is adding value for its shareholders by letting these banks retain their individual... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Insights from My First Year at HBS

tensions between optimizing shareholder value and the taking into account the wellbeing of employees and society. I struggle on a daily basis to think of how I can optimize my HBS experience and resources, not just for personal gain, but... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)

community. Our second-largest shareholder was so enamored by this that he wanted me to advertise it. I absolutely refused. I always followed the theory that if someone else toots your horn, the noise travels twice as far. Grand Bank was... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

Mozilo ... and 'Say on Pay' for All! (A) Harvard Business School Case 109-009 Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

better understand the court's reasoning. The text continues to provide additional questions, connections to the empirical literature, and cross-country comparisons. Book: http://www.aspenlawschool.com/books/allen_busorg4/default.asp   Working PapersHow Do Staggered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

Business School Case 407-129 Briefly describes the trend in 2006 and 2007 in the United States to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation. Highlights a few examples where shareholders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace