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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

rolling," said workshop co-organizer Beiting Cheng, an HBS doctoral student. Short of government mandates, how can corporations be motivated to adopt integrated reporting? Will shareholders be a driving force? What about outside... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting
  • 06 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

its diaspora in the past quarter century. Supporting the efforts of such individual change-agents is a way forward. There can be corporate bridges also, to build on these interpersonal ones. Western corporations taking the long view of working in China, not just for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Leading a Family Business - Course Catalog

decisions in a family business? How do you define success in a family business that goes beyond maximizing shareholder returns? How do you build and sustain competitive advantage? How do you plan for effective succession and transition of... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

corporations is prevalent but rarely creates any wedge (a pyramid). The primary sources of the wedge are dual-class stock, disproportional board representation, and voting agreements. Each control-enhancing mechanism has a different impact on value. Our findings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more than $127 billion invested... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

industry. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-124 AIG and the American Taxpayers (A) Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-403 Shareholder Activists and Corporate Strategy By 2015, there had been an upsurge in activist shareholders arguing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Transportation - Business & Environment

business leaders that recognize shareholder value is irrelevant if the planet cannot be sustained long enough to realize financial gains. Every day, I rely on HBS frameworks for analysis and disruption toward the pursuit of transitioning... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Short Takes

stock-price measure known as Tobin's Q , Kang found that three types of shareholders owning large blocks of a company's stock had a positive impact on the firm's performance: outside-director owners (shareholders who serve on the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

moments when I am a good leader and there are moments when I am not,” he admits. Having devoted his entire career to Corning—both the company and the small town where it sits on the Chemung River—Weeks’s success is hard to miss, whether measured in employee... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Case Study: Citizen Buffett

trigger a crippling default on an amended loan agreement, Morton has to take a hard look at the numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save... View Details
Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

HBS Press Books in Brief

expectations embedded in a company's stock price. Providing a fundamentally new way to evaluate all stocks, Expectations Investing will set investors on the path to success. Managers can also use the book to devise, adjust, and communicate their company's strategy in... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance
  • 14 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

awarded a French accolade, Officer de La Legion D'Honneur, the highest honor France had yet bestowed upon a Chinese entrepreneur, but his shareholders don't have much to show for the deal. TCL had to write off much of its investment. The... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies

technology, or geographic market, an acquisition may present a strong option for closing that gap. Similarly we will consider partnerships, alliances, and other ways of supplementing existing capabilities when appropriate. Naturally we evaluate such options with an eye... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

complete abandonment of the current system. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13213 Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Li Jin Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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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  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors

By: Eugene F. Soltes and David H. Solomon
Executives of publicly-traded firms spend considerable time meeting privately with investors, despite regulation restricting their ability to convey material nonpublic information. Using a set of records of all one-on-one meetings between senior management and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Teams; Public Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • November 1996
  • Case

Del Webb Corporation (B), The

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
On November 16, 1987, the Del Webb board appointed Phil Dion chairman and CEO. This case outlines the development and implementation of a strategy to focus exclusively on real estate development and to liquidate all other assets. Discusses the appointment of two new... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Management Succession; Strategic Planning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Real Estate Industry
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  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 4 (April 2008): 104-111 Abstract These days, boards are working overtime to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other governance requirements meant to protect shareholders from executive wrongdoing.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

early 2003 would have 10,000 shares today. Why would a company want to cut the trading price of its stock by so much? A: In a stock split, each share of the firm is divided into more units, but the proportional ownership of each View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology