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  • 2005
  • Chapter

Shareholder Primacy Is a Choice, Not a Legal Mandate

By: Constance E. Bagley
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  • February 2006
  • Article

Creating Organizational Success for Your CEO and Your Shareholders

By: Blythe J. McGarvie and Eleanor Bloxham
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  • 11 Jan 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

Keywords: by Bo Becker, Daniel B. Bergstresser & Guhan Subramanian; Financial Services
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • News

What Would It Take to Get Businesses to Focus Less on Shareholder Value?

  • July–August 2012
  • Article

What Good Are Shareholders?

By: Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch
The article looks at the role outside shareholders play in corporate governance in the U.S., and the relationship between companies' shareholders and managers, as of 2012. It recounts the shift beginning in the 1970s toward shareholders claiming an increasing amount of... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; United States
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  • Editorial

ExxonMobil's Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

By: George Serafeim and Sakis Kotsantonis
Keywords: Climate Change; Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Investments; Environment
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  • Article

The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans

By: Christopher S. Armstrong, Ian D. Gow and David F. Larcker
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  • April 2015
  • Teaching Note

SecondMarket - Providing Liquidity for Shareholders of Privately Held iContact

By: Ramana Nanda
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  • 07 Jun 2017
  • News

ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

  • 16 Nov 2010
  • News

Bebchuk, Cohen, & Wang on Staggered Boards & Shareholder Wealth

  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov

By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value-reducing. In a recent response paper, Amihud and Stoyanov (2015) “contest” our results. They... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Boards; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Firm Value; Agency Costs; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware
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  • 09 Feb 2018
  • News

No Time For Complacency For U.S. Banks - Aggressive Technology Use Can Create Real Shareholder Value

  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Finding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value

By: Marc L Bertoneche and Cornis van der Lugt
The start of the 2000s saw a flurry of international publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organisations... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Environmental Sustainability
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  • Article

Laws versus Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950

By: Aldo Musacchio
This article examines some of the institutional conditions that facilitated the development of equity markets in Brazil. A critical factor was the addition of protections for investors to corporate bylaws, which enabled relatively large corporations in Brazil to... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership Stake; Brazil
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  • December 2012
  • Article

Shareholder's Value?: Reassessing Investors' Functions

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Justin Fox
This article examines the three functions shareholders are supposed to provide: money, information, and discipline. View Details
Keywords: Shareholders; Investors; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • April 2015 (Revised July 2015)
  • Case

Proxy Access at Whole Foods

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
Proxy access grants shareholders meeting certain ownership requirements the right to nominate directors for election to the board without going through a typical proxy contest. In August 2010 the SEC approved a rule granting proxy access for shareholders meeting... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Proxy Advisor; Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Voting; Shareholder Votes; Proxy Battle; Institutional Change; Institutional Investing; Business and Shareholder Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; North America
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  • May 2025
  • Teaching Plan

Bed Bath & Beyond: The New Strategy to Drive Shareholder Value

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
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  • December 2021
  • Supplement

Bed Bath & Beyond: The New Strategy to Drive Shareholder Value

By: Benjamin C. Esty
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  • 14 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
  • April 2023
  • Case

Strive Asset Management

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia
Strive Asset Management, which launched in 2022, was actively targeting several leading U.S. companies in the upcoming 2023 proxy voting season to stop acquiescing to those large asset managers and other institutional shareholders who were pressing those companies to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Shareholder Activism; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Risk Management; Climate Change; Diversity; Equity; Financial Services Industry; United States
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