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  • 20 Oct 2022
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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

By: Adi Ignatius, Lynn Paine, Mihir Desai and Carola Frydman
A roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today.

The idea that maximizing shareholder value takes legal and practical precedence above all else first came to prominence in the 1970s. The... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Value Maximization; Business and Shareholder Relations
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"4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value." HBR IdeaCast (podcast), Harvard Business Review Group, October 20, 2022.
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Shareholder Value Maximization and Product Market Competition

By: Julio J. Rotemberg and David S. Scharfstein
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Rotemberg, Julio J., and David S. Scharfstein. "Shareholder Value Maximization and Product Market Competition." Review of Financial Studies 3, no. 3 (1990): 367–392.
  • 14 Oct 2014
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The Unanticipated Risks of Maximizing Shareholder Value

  • 1997
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Maximizing Corporate Shareholder Value Using Risk Profile Dynamics

By: Marc L Bertoneche and Samir Asaf
Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management
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Bertoneche, Marc L., and Samir Asaf. "Maximizing Corporate Shareholder Value Using Risk Profile Dynamics." University of Oxford, Templeton College, January 1997.
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

choose among alternative policy options), what would it be? Or, even more simply, How do we want the firms in our economy to measure better versus worse?" It's tempting to consider value simply as a matter of View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • September 2017
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Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Alma Cohen
Cohen and Wang (2013) (CW2013) provide evidence consistent with market participants perceiving staggered boards to be value reducing. Amihud and Stoyanov (2016) (AS2016) contests these findings, reporting some specifications under which the results are not... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Boards; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Firm Value; Delaware; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Value
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Wang, Charles C.Y., and Alma Cohen. "Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value." Journal of Financial Economics 125, no. 3 (September 2017): 637–647.
  • 16 Jun 2016
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What Business Schools Teach About Shareholder Value

  • 11 Aug 2012
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Down With Shareholder Value

  • 20 Oct 2022
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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

  • 02 Feb 2011
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Airgas and Shareholder Value

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Research: Shareholder Value in Europe

Marc L. Bertoneches research involves a series of empirical studies on value creation among Europes leading companies and the role of different models of corporate governance. He is also developing cases on European companies (Jazztel, Allianz, etc.). View Details
  • 2000
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Value Maximization and the Corporate Objective Function

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Value Creation
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Jensen, Michael. "Value Maximization and the Corporate Objective Function." In Breaking the Code of Change, edited by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. (Forthcoming in Management Revolution: The Legacy of the Market for Corporate Control, Harvard University Press. Reprinted in Business Ethics Quarterly, v 12, No 1, 2001, & European Financial Management, v.7, no.3, September 2001.)
  • October 2021
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Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Reporting; Shareholder Engagement; Shareholder Activism; Climate Change; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Management; Investment Activism; Corporate Disclosure; Communication Strategy; Information Publishing; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; United States
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Flammer, Caroline, Michael W. Toffel, and Kala Viswanathan. "Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 10 (October 2021): 1850–1879. (Featured in Harvard Business Review.)
  • 01 Jan 2009
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Shareholder Value Must Top CEOs Agenda

Keywords: Gregory T. Carrott, Stuart E. Jackson
  • 01 Aug 2003
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How to Uncover Hidden Shareholder Value

Keywords: Brian Hagen, Raymond L. Manganelli
  • 2000
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Value Maximization and the Corporate Objective Function

By: Michael C. Jensen
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Jensen, Michael C. "Value Maximization and the Corporate Objective Function." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-058, March 2000.
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Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value

By: Alma Cohen and Charles CY Wang
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Cohen, Alma, and Charles CY Wang. "Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (December 13, 2017). https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/12/13/reexamining-staggered-boards-and-shareholder-value/.
  • 2019
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Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

By: Malcolm S. Salter
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.
  • April 22, 2021
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Shareholders Are Pressing for Climate Risk Disclosures. That's Good for Everyone

By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
Does shareholder activism induce firms to voluntarily disclose climate change risks? And how do markets respond to these disclosures? New research finds that the extent of climate-risk disclosure increases by approximately 4.6% for each environment-related proposal... View Details
Keywords: Reporting; Transparency; Activism; Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Engagement; Climate Change; Corporate Disclosure; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Flammer, Caroline, Michael W. Toffel, and Kala Viswanathan. "Shareholders Are Pressing for Climate Risk Disclosures. That's Good for Everyone." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 22, 2021).
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The Shiny Penny: How to Maximize the M&A Value of your Company

Angel investor Steve Kirschner explains how to maximize the M&A valuation of your company heading into a private sale.

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