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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Letters to the Editor

knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

espousing a triple bottom line of people, planet, and profits, rather than a single-minded focus on shareholder value. People of my vintage recall when business leadership was about serving customers at a profit and giving back to your... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

the recent launch of his new, $6 billion closed-end vehicle, Pershing Square Holdings, as well as the firm's lengthening investment horizon. Although always activist in nature, Ackman and his fund had in recent years become substantively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

emphasizing that the company delivered strong results despite an exceptionally challenging environment, which included a nearly 50% drop in oil prices. However, shareholders questioned the massive payout and ultimately rejected BP's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy

environmentalists and green activist investors for being slow in electrification. For all the EV fervor, Claire noted the long shelf-life of the combustion engine vehicles that consumers are currently driving. She predicted that it could... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

shareholders more than $3.95 trillion via stock buybacks and $2.45 trillion via dividends—$6.4 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 93% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense negotiations with numerous firms, but institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

organizations prefer to diversify into product categories with three features: high levels of fit with the organization’s current clients, campaigns, and strategies; appealing market features, defined as highly integrated, predictable, low-risk supply chains and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

and progressive middle management. Rather than pursue shareholder profits, Anheuser-Busch suddenly became focused on stakeholder capitalism and the vague mandates of environment, social, and governance (ESG). This culminated in the... View Details
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

app targeted at millennial customers that would include a novel proxy voting feature that allowed clients to vote on shareholder resolutions with a simple swipe. With this technological addition, OpenInvest was well on its way towards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

theories of how social activists inspire changes in organizational norms, beliefs, and practices, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to adopt practices... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 26

that this deterrence effect is stronger for smaller companies and in institutional contexts featuring stronger activist pressures and stronger norms of corporate transparency. Examining the decisions of 2,043 firms headquartered in 42... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

for Pentax into a hostile cash tender offer. A surprising sequence of events had caused a friendly merger agreement to fall apart, resulting in a boardroom coup at Pentax and the intervention of the Sparx Group, an indigenous activist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge fund activist, Pershing Square had quietly amassed a 9.7% stake in Allergan prior to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

Benefits Fund (PBF) enacted by the state legislature. With renewed effort by activists in 2006 to expand AE's role, there was a possibility of the PBF swelling to $50 to $80 million. Naturally, this put AE at conflict with electric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit business enterprises. Much of this scholarship is framed in relation to “shareholder primacy”—the view that managers should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

volunteers, and that citizens took on so much responsibility—social entrepreneurs were another manifestation of America's entrepreneurial spirit. That's a strength we can mobilize at home and abroad. Citizen diplomats are all the philanthropists and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne