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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
shareholders as well as the clients." A second big deal followed two years later with the acquisition of another industry icon, The Ogilvy Group, for $864 million. A pattern had been set that continues to this day. The owner of some 100... View Details
- 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
- February 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Teaching Note
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (TN)
Teaching Note for 211-067. View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
Easterbrook forfeited cash and stock worth $105 million. Shareholders sued the board for breach of its fiduciary duties, including its oversight duty, but the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed the suit, saying the board acted... View Details
- July 1995 (Revised May 1997)
- Case
Nutra Foods
By: David F. Hawkins
An investor reviews his equity investment and asks for help in understanding how the stock splits and dividends impact his investment and the company's stockholders' equity portion of the balance sheet. View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Management; Private Equity; Capital Structure; Valuation; Investment Return; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Nutra Foods." Harvard Business School Case 196-038, July 1995. (Revised May 1997.)
- November 2006 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
HCA, Inc. (A)
Focuses on the buyout of HCA by three private equity firms: Bain Capital, KKR, and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity. It provides an opportunity to discuss a variety of issues related to leveraged buyouts including the process, the role of private equity, the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Investment; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Valuation
Ruback, Richard S. "HCA, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 207-076, November 2006. (Revised December 2011.)
- 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- Other Unpublished Work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
Soltes, Eugene F., and David H. Solomon. "What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors." September 2012.
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
target shareholders in the form of higher deal premiums or more competing bids. Completion rates and deal jumping rates also remained unchanged. We estimate that the incidence-rate ratio of UK deals to non-UK deals after the reform was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
its competition and into financial trouble. The case ends with a pivotal vote by shareholders on whether to sell this family company. Clarks (B) summarizes the results of the shareholders vote described in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2008
- Supplement
Finansbank 2006 (CW)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
How do financial policy requirements and benefits of ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a... View Details
- 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
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
plans are more likely to hire a consultant. Lastly, say-on-pay voting patterns suggest shareholders view positively the advice consultants provide but only when consultants do not provide other services. We also find suggestive evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
leaders view their role through one or the other lenses, though in the strong market for corporate control that has emerged in the last twenty years shareholder value dominates. A study of CEOs in Americas and Europe selected because... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
but obviously you always need to be focusing on a real business, a real cash flow. You have a responsibility for families of shareholders and all stakeholders involved. Values are the most important when you are in any organization and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
understand that our connected style can help us win all the deals we want and get all the business results our shareholders want, that’s really the broad concept here.” Nor has growth stymied the Vision Community exercise. It remains... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
and society at large. To do that, it has to increase shareholder value while at the same time improving the firm's performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions. This article outlines a process that can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
hit me like a ton of bricks. It was a headline in the New York Times that said "Shareholder value was no longer everything, top CEOs say." That was the headline. It was 8/19/19. I refer to that day in the book as the day the shareholders... View Details
- 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
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Julie Wulf. "Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO ." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-056, January 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- 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
Palepu, Krishna G., and Paul M. Healy. "CUC International, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 192-099, February 1992. (Revised October 1996.)
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well. The purpose of this note is to define the main categories of price protection and explain their impact on the payoffs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace