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  • 22 Mar 2018
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Sustainability: A New Way of Doing Business

  • 25 Jul 2023
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Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott

In a recent profile in the Australian Financial Review, Rob Scott (AMP 179, 2010), CEO of Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, discussed his career path and management philosophy. “I actually think that one of the biggest dangers in leadership is ego and hubris,” Scott,... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup

sells, There's enough left over after the preferred shareholders get paid out that the common shareholders get paid out. There's so many risks that startups have to go through in order to reach success,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2011
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Who Was George F. Baker?

newspaper reporter since 1863,” the year he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank of New York (now Citibank) at age 23. Baker believed in action, not words. And his actions spoke volumes. He began... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

says. “And if the company wins, the employees win, and the shareholders win.” In fact, so many of those shareholders now work in the company’s manufacturing facilities, Zeitz observes, they have asked that a... View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

context, and that meant telling the truth about how serious the situation was. People respond to that." Currently, Checchi, still a major Northwest shareholder (he resigned from the company for his political run), is busy with private... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

shareholder in our business. I think we are really showing that horizontal integration and synergies can work. I am also very proud that we are one of the first real cars on the information superhighway. People talk about it a lot, but we... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

That is why we introduced pep+ (PepsiCo Positive), our strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create value for our shareholders and all our stakeholders. Climate action across our supply... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • 11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

think I have a very simple philosophy. My philosophy is, listen, we all come to work to do three things: shareholder value, help unlock the dreams of people that we work with, and serve the community in which we operate. Those are the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
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Shareholders' Value?

What are shareholders good for? Maybe not as much as most people think. Basically, shareholders are supposed to provide three functions: money, information, and discipline. Let's examine each. Money. In... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
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Capitalism’s False Mantra

was aligned with the interests of shareholders. If the company’s stock did well, executive pay would rise in concert. Thus was born the idea that CEOs should serve to maximize shareholder value, the mantra that has defined the business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
  • 29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account

idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2006
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CEO Compensation Troubles

Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue... View Details
Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 16 Feb 2022
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Holding Business to Account

important to their bottom line: gender equity. “I suddenly realized the power, the reach we had as shareholders,” Aiyer recalls with some amazement. After that experience, “the idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says.... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2005
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Trouble in Mouse Land

In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 01 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Annual Report

and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can shareholders and other stakeholders know if a company’s commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create value... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
  • 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

In 1926, C.P. Biddle, an assistant dean at Harvard Business School, provided one framing of what was, at the time, the highly contested question of whether and why business schools belonged in universities: The interests of the View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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