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- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
members of society to meet their needs and wants. This account is contrasted with prevailing accounts in scholarly literature (e.g., shareholder primacy and stakeholder theory) that frame corporate purpose and responsibility in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
information and instead message to shareholders and analysts something of opposite sign. The data suggest they may be motivated in part by subsequent personal stock-trading opportunities. Publisher's link:... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
valuation, corporate governance, shareholder activism, takeover deal tactics, and the Japanese market for corporate control. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209065-PDF-ENG Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders are facilitated by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
decision would require a 76% shareholder approval. When Augstein died in 2002, however, his co-owners exercised the option the same bylaws gave them to buy a 0.5% stake each from Augstein's heirs, who thus lost their veto rights. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
its competitors. A capability is a set of business processes, strategically understood.” Partly in response to new pressures to create shareholder wealth, companies did indeed improve their capabilities, but over time, the effort would... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
value creation for shareholders overall. August 2013 Quarterly Journal of Economics Last-place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications By: Kuziemko, Ilyana, Ryan Buell, Taly Reich, and Michael Norton Abstract—We present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
purpose than simply profit and increasing stock price, though they were all laser-focused on profitability and saw it as essential to achieving their larger purpose for the firm. They had a multi-stakeholder view of the firm as opposed as a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
“The history of globalization warns against easy assumptions on the linearity of globalization.” Another instance is the highly influential "law and economics" literature, which emphasizes the importance of the common law tradition in protecting minority... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
the trust of their stakeholders. Not just their shareholders and not just their customers. I touched on that in the book in one place, but I think that’s the opportunity. And that’s why I’m doing what I’m doing at RedSeal. Skydeck is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
today are searching for a deeper meaning for business leadership than just creating shareholder value, says Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman. “It’s hard to think of yourself as a business leader anymore without thinking... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
by the mid-90s, you started to see more interest in diversity on boards, particularly having women and minorities. And partly that was coming from the rise of institutional shareholder power, because then, at that time there were a few... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that choose specific peers—do a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
likely to hire compensation consultants the following year. Finally, we show that shareholders “Say-on-Pay” votes are more favorable for companies using compensation consultants, but this association is also explained by the composition... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Hongchoy faced on whether the strategic shift would dilute Link's mission of servicing the local community with affordable yet quality retail experience, while balancing his responsibilities to his shareholders and pursuing other growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
At a crossroads in February 2001, the shareholders of Zansar Technologies were waiting for a maiden dividend, and profit margins were sliding. A new leadership team took charge and turned Zensar around into one of the most successful... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Snack Foods, located in Austin, Texas, manufactures, markets, and distributes snack foods and frozen treats. The CEO is passionate about maximizing shareholder value and believes in keeping tight control over costs and operating the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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relationship—personal and professional. We see this play out dramatically in business: from Bud Light’s influencer controversy to Boeing’s horrific crashes and endless travails, trust breaches cost companies millions in lost revenues, spur dramatic declines in investor... View Details