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    Case: The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)

    In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a shareholder vote at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in April on a proposal to... View Details
    • October 2018
    • Case

    The Proxy Fight at ADP

    By: Robin Greenwood and E. Scott Mayfield
    In July 2017, shares of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) surged 12% following a report that the activist investor Bill Ackman had acquired a sizable stake in the company and planned to nominate his own slate of directors at the company’s annual meeting in... View Details
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    • 31 Aug 2021
    • News

    How Boards Can Help Build Trusted Companies

    • November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
    • Case

    Clear Channel 2006

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
    The Board of Directors of Clear Channel Communications, a radio broadcasting and outdoor advertising company, has to 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... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation Offer; Privatization; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 24 Nov 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

    Companies can create shareholder value through more effective governance, and through boards that do not simply ensure compliance, but focus their time and efforts on the most critical strategic areas. Past board results have often not... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
    • November 2010
    • Supplement

    Magna International, Inc. (B)

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Yuhai Xuan
    Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a 0.65% economic interest in the company but has 66% of the votes via a... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Voting; Family Ownership; Cost; Cost vs Benefits; Stock Shares; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Canada
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    • 24 Mar 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality

    Keywords: by Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim & Aaron Yoon; Financial Services
    • 21 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900

    Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio; Legal Services
    • January 2001 (Revised March 2002)
    • Case

    Ford Motor Company's Value Enhancement Plan

    By: Andre F. Perold
    In April 2000, Ford Motor Co. announced a shareholder Value Enhancement Plan (VEP) to significantly recapitalize the firm's ownership structure. Ford had accumulated $23 billion in cash reserves and under the VEP would return as much as $10 billion of this cash to... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Structure; Cash; Financial Liquidity; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Auto Industry
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    • 11 Oct 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

    statement, in which case shareholders can vote on whether the company should adopt the change; negotiate with the shareholder to come up with a mutually acceptable solution to... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • July 2012
    • Case

    El Paso's Sale to Kinder Morgan

    By: John Coates, Clayton Rose and David Lane
    On October 16, 2011, El Paso agreed to sell itself to Kinder Morgan for just over $21 billion. Shareholders filed suit, arguing that the process was tainted by conflict and that a higher price could be obtained. Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine agreed with the plaintiffs... View Details
    Keywords: El Paso; Kinder Morgan; Goldman Sachs; Leo Strine; Conflicts Of Interest; Corporate Governance; Relationships; Lawsuits and Litigation; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 10 Nov 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors

    Keywords: by Ian D. Gow, Aida Sijamic Wahid, and Gwen Yu
    • 10 Apr 2025
    • Video

    BiGS Debate: Is Big Tech Too Big?

    • 21 Dec 2012
    • News

    Robert G. Eccles recognized for impact on corporate governance

    • November 2011 (Revised September 2012)
    • Case

    Underwater Engineer at Intel Corporation

    By: E. Scott Mayfield
    Molly Miller, an Intel employee and shareholder, must decide whether to vote FOR or AGAINST Intel's proposed 2009 option exchange program. Given recent declines in Intel's stock price, more than 99% of Intel's outstanding employee stock options are "underwater," and... View Details
    Keywords: Stock Options; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Semiconductor Industry
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    • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    OpenInvest

    By: Shawn Cole, Boris Vallée and Nicole Tempest Keller
    Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolios to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Investment Portfolio; Customization and Personalization; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
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    • 23 Jun 2020
    • Book

    Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

    Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Aug 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Michael Schor; Banking
    • October 2017 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    Snap Inc. Goes Public (A)

    By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. The case is set in early 2017 following the public availability of Snap’s IPO filing with the U.S. Securities... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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    • November 2011
    • Article

    How Great Companies Think Differently

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the actions of most corporations, constraining them to focus on maximizing short-term... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; Social Issues; Competitive Advantage
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