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  • 12 May 2009
  • News

Schumer's Shareholder Bill Misses the Mark

  • 20 Mar 2021
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US security focus on Chinese state ownership is not productive, advisory panel is told

  • 07 Jun 2018
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Bill Ackman on what it means to be an activist investor

  • 06 Oct 2020
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Covid-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance

  • 01 Jun 2011
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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
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • 16 Feb 2022
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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
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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
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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
Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 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
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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
Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2006
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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
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government
  • 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2009
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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
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo

organizations, Nolan says, technology has so thoroughly penetrated every aspect of the business that its activities, strategies, and functions have become transparent, thereby circumventing any possibility of the disorienting dot vertigo (symptoms of which include lack... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 2001
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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
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Apr 2001
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Adventure in China

her initial enthusiasm was tempered when she arrived at the School. “I had only worked on projects in a state plan but I was being told about shareholder value, equity, and management,” she recalled. “It was... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
  • 22 Sep 2015
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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
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