Shareholder Votes - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

to do it. What do you think? Original Column The Brexit vote by citizens of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union was neither the beginning nor the end of the anti-globalization, anti-establishment movement. But it grabbed the... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Vote for "Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU" (June 2021) with Jesse M. Fried. Charles C.Y. Wang : Received the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring in 2022. Yuan... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Leadership ; Leadership Style ; Leading Change ; Management ; Product Design ; Product Development ; Organizational Change and Adaptation ; Organizational Culture ; Organizational Design ; Strategic Planning ; Business and Shareholder... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

syndicates, the study says. Public companies also typically require more infrastructure and legal support to handle shareholder and regulatory demands. “For a lot of entrepreneurs, it's just about the term sheet and how much equity... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

2010 terms, as a share of national income) were scheduled to revert to Colombian ownership in that year. The money to buy them for the new canal effort, then, would have gone to Bogotá instead of the shareholders in the moribund French... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

that being personally chosen by a sponsor as a protégé could serve as an important vote of confidence; and two, the idea that sponsors’ compensation being linked to protégé outcomes might serve as further motivation for the protégé. They... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

Republican—are 3.2 percent more likely to leave their companies when they are “politically misaligned” with their colleagues. Shareholders collectively lose $238 million, on average, after their departure is announced, the research shows.... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

calling to tell me?" Ruben's area had no operational responsibilities, thus would be involved in an outage only peripherally. Barton imagined his team voting on who the bearer of bad news would be. "Because everybody else is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Effects of Shareholder Engagement Show Hide Details Concepts Sustainable Investing in Public Markets Divestment: Screening and Portfolio Tilts Engagement and Proxy Voting ESG Integration and Alpha Generation... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

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

01 Dec 2012
News

Shareholders' Value?

Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one shareholder to have a discernible... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Trouble in Mouse Land

several board members. “Saving Disney,” by HBS assistant professor Nancy Beaulieu, tells the story behind their efforts, following the timeline of events from Eisner’s arrival at Disney to a historic shareholder View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

of votes a single shareholder could have to restrictions on the number of family members who could act as directors simultaneously," Musacchio says. We interviewed Musacchio about the research findings... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

01 Sep 2003
What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

Summing Up "It is pretty clear to me to whom the board is accountable: the shareholders."—J. W. Penland "When the board deviates from long- and short-term shareholder interests as it has recently done in some instances, it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

May 2010
Teaching Note

Say on Pay (TN)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

Teaching Note for [407129]. View Details

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Voting; Executive Compensation; United States

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01 Sep 2009
News

Over the Top

annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation — so-called say on pay; grants substantial shareholders a new right to have their director candidates’ names... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

18 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

company statutes and shareholder lists, reveals that the addition of voting rights to their bylaws, particularly maximum vote provisions and graduated View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

the 1990s. In order to attract investors, the founders of companies organized before 1910 often included in the statutes stronger protections for small shareholders than what was mandated by law. The most important of these protections... View Details