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- 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
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
during the class period. Named directors receive more negative recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a proxy advisory firm, and significantly more negative votes from View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
TELUS Share Conversion Proposal On February 21, 2013, TELUS announced a proposal to convert the firm's non-voting shares into voting shares on a one-to-one basis, thereby eliminating the firm's dual class structure. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
relatively low concentration of ownership and control in large firms before 1910. Archival evidence such as company statutes and shareholder lists document that in many Brazilian corporations voting rights... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
Publication:Journal of Corporate Finance (forthcoming) Abstract In recent years, boards have become significantly more likely to implement non-binding, majority-vote (MV) shareholder proposals. Using a sample of 620 MV proposals between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
subsidies are our descendants. If they could vote in Senate elections or in shareholder meetings, they would fire us. Other Articles In This Series Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think We... View Details
- February 1991 (Revised June 1991)
- Case
Raymond Jackson (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Professor Jackson is offered a spot on the slate of directors that Harold Simmons, Lockheed's largest shareholder, has nominated for Lockheed's board to oppose the slate nominated by Lockheed in the Spring, 1990 elections. Jackson must decide whether to join Simmons'... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Decisions; Voting; Governing and Advisory Boards; Alliances
Lorsch, Jay W. "Raymond Jackson (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-025, February 1991. (Revised June 1991.)
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
its competition and into financial trouble. The case ends with a pivotal vote by shareholders on whether to sell this family company. Clarks (B) summarizes the results of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
the number of candidates willing to consider such CEO positions, even though their willingness might be an indicator of potential success in these jobs. Taking the matter to an extreme, shareholders more frequently might View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized door-to-door visits at the individual level, the scale of this campaign (five million doors knocked) enabled randomization by precinct, the level at which vote... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
unique case, with most of its companies owned by either the state or large families, and lacking checks and balances such as shareholder voting and class action lawsuits that, in the United States and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
majority of shareholder votes by creating a separate class of equity with superior voting rights. Also, in owner-managed focused firms, the founders frequently avoided dilution... View Details
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
Nigerians. It could lay out its management plan as part of its election campaign, and voters would take that into account in making their decision. Why would locals vote for a foreigner? If they felt it was their only option to get out of... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 112-003 When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
delayed for 20 days a shareholder vote on the sale of Del Monte Foods Co. (Del Monte) to a consortium of three private equity firms. In his opinion, Laster was critical of Del Monte's board, noting that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
significantly more so at work. It’s become too much. It’s a major distraction. It saps our energy.” Al Romig added, “Being ‘woke’ or ‘unwoke’ publicly may be equally harmful to the enterprise.” Dennis Waterman was more blunt: “Unless they are going to get a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Katherine L. Milkman, Leslie John, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Many intend to stay fit but fail to exercise or eat healthfully; students intend to earn good grades but study too little; citizens intend to vote but fail to turnout. How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
O for organizational capabilities). Chief executive officers who employ Theory E are driven by one thing: increasing shareholder value. They often conclude that the way to generate the best shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Inc.’s third largest shareholder in 2013 when Dell announced a management-led buyout, or MBO, structured as a merger. In considering whether to vote for or oppose the transaction, Brian C. Rogers, chairman... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
“comvoc”), and leave their differentiated personal selves and external group memberships behind. All it took to motivate people, it was thought, was to offer financial incentives, and good results would follow. Well, we know where an over-emphasis on View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne