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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  • Other Unpublished Work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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  • May 2008
  • Supplement

Tribune Company, 2007 (CW)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
This case describes the proposed acquisition of Tribune Company by Sam Zell in 2007. Tribune Company is one of the largest newspapers and broadcasting companies in the United States. Zell's proposed acquisition is unusual in several respects. It is two-tiered, employs... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Credit; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Employees; Markets; Market Transactions; Negotiation Deal; Business and Shareholder Relations; Sales; Perspective; Journalism and News Industry; United States
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  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

produced. Scoring high in all these categories, BMW believes that its reputation as the world's "greenest" car company plays an important role in brand awareness and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

Target's faltering performance during an economic downturn led an activist shareholder to initiate a proxy fight. Target Corporation, the second largest discount store retailer in the U.S., had competed successfully against industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Interests; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Performance Evaluation; Stock Options
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  • February 1992 (Revised October 1996)
  • Case

CUC International, Inc. (A)

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy
The case series examines the role of financial reporting and corporate finance policies as vehicles for communication between managers and outside investors. This case describes management's concern that the company's stock is undervalued because analysts viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Stocks; Financial Management; Decisions; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Style; Management Practices and Processes; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Financial Services Industry
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  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the adoption of less divergent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Faculty Books

Lecturer Robert Pozen and his coauthor detail how mutual funds are marketed, regulated, and invested in stocks and bonds. They describe the critical factors needed to choose a specific fund, including what to look for when reading prospectuses, View Details
Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • Web

Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog

influencer controversy to Boeing’s horrific crashes and endless travails, trust breaches cost companies millions in lost revenues, spur dramatic declines in investor confidence and shareholder value, upend customer reliance, and unnerve... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

chances that their agents will act in the organization's (or owners') interests, and compensation is one of the levers they can use. Agency theory is an extremely useful lens through which to examine situations where there is a divergence between managerial and View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path Ahead

do you hope will be the contribution of the School in reimagining capitalism under your leadership? —Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992) When I think about stakeholder capitalism, I think about supporting customers, suppliers, employees, and communities. Doing so is consistent... View Details
  • 03 Aug 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

for personal enrichment at the expense of all other shareholders until there is a change in the process of selecting board (members) ” Nisha Advani cited the nature of leadership itself in saying “Leadership, though grounded in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 22 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

In addition, businesses in which the government is a majority shareholder may be more suitable for countries that recognize a "double bottom line" where compelling social interests—such as energy security, economic development, or job... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

my new book Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how purpose-driven leaders find success by going beyond focusing only on shareholders and customers and also considering their employees, communities,... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 27 Jul 2019
  • Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

Changing that to a completely new business model would be more than difficult because individual users seem well served, advertisers like the reach and targeting ability on the platform, and shareholders can’t complain either. It is... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

not goals in and of themselves," Hall says. "It's hard to wake up in the morning and get excited about creating shareholder value. The way to be a successful company is to think, How do we produce this at better costs, or how do... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder value while at the same time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

that the owners of the scarce resources are no longer only the shareholders but also the employees. The implications are profound. Top management must begin renegotiating both implicit and explicit contracts with key stakeholders,... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

and shareholders have the ability to put the heat on the company if it is not performing. These represent rather substantial changes in the Japanese organizational model. The leading companies—the Sonys—are rapidly moving in these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer