Activist Shareholder - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2009
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Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details

29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

people. I have been working with them for the last 70 years of my life,” says Bermek, who has worked as a human rights activist in the country and the region for the last twenty years after a long career in business. “We are not taking... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

Oaxaca City, local activist Gustavo Esteva, a founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, gave us a crash course in Zapotec culture, a way of life for the area’s indigenous people who first settled the Oaxaca valley thousands of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

portrayed by the takeover artists and shareholder activists of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as by business school professors influenced by the work of scholars such as Oliver Williamson and Michael Jensen,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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The Market Needs Shareholder Activist

Bob Evans’ Activist Shareholder Battles with Board He Helped Pick

Bill Ackman on what it means to be an activist investor

The Fastest-Growing Cause for Shareholders Is Sustainability

Will shareholder pressure reshape company policies?

Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

Beyond Ackman, JCP Fights for Survival

Governance reforms add significance to being a public company

The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

Non-Executive Directors Need To Align With Managers -- Without Losing Their Independence

Corporate Governance 2.0

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge