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- 12 May 2009
- News
Schumer's Shareholder Bill Misses the Mark
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Bill Ackman on what it means to be an activist investor
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Covid-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
newspaper reporter since 1863,” the year he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank of New York (now Citibank) at age 23. Baker believed in action, not words. And his actions spoke volumes. He began... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of... 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
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
Since when do the taxman and the shareholder agree? IRS Commissioner Mark Everson and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox (MBA 1976) have advanced a simple, but controversial proposal. Companies would be required to disclose how much they pay in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
union of the two banks with an eye to the horizon. "Some years ago, BayBanks might have been seen as big enough to represent the northeastern United States adequately," Crozier explains. "But then so many large mergers started coming... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
shareholders — compared with 8-plus percent for its customers. It is worth adding that this shareholder surplus would be completely wiped out if Wal-Mart’s million-plus employees were to receive a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
Born in East Lansing, Michigan, Charles Stoddard grew up with banking in his blood. As a teenager, he worked as a teller in the bank his father founded. After earning degrees from Michigan State University and HBS, he held banking and... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
incompetence, and negligence by a corporate board. The board at Merrill Lynch was so disconnected from the company that when shareholders met in December 2008 to approve the company’s sale to Bank of America — after five straight... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Giving Kids a Better Chance
lot of the skills that we learn here at [HBS] are very relevant to improving public schools. The fun part is that it's not just about making money. Our output isn't shareholder return. Our output is giving a lot of kids a chance at a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
myself. That sounds very simple, but it’s actually very difficult to do in China.” In addition, the top executives have a stake in the venture through stock options — another innovation. “That’s a very significant step for a Chinese state... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Kanter contends that vanguard companies deliver what their customers want better than their competitors do, thereby providing the financial success shareholders demand and the social conscience demanded by the new generation of managers.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
contemporary state is in many ways antithetical to the goals of professional education itself,” writes Khurana. The excerpts that follow trace business schools from their early idealism to the more recent abandonment of their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering... View Details