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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
oversight by the board of directors. The case explores the history of AFSCME's shareholder activism on this front and particularly its use of shareholder proposals voted on by...
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Martha Lagace
- 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...
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by Eric Werker
- May 2009
- Teaching Note
Nextel Partners: Put Option (TN)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for [207-128]
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- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
skills, (2) broad perspective, (3) teaming skills, (4) expanded social network, and (5) boundary-spanning skills. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our ideas for conducting future team research. Board of Directors' Responsiveness to Shareholders:...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
shareholders. He believed this required good corporate governance and effective oversight by the board of directors. The case explores the history of AFSCME's shareholder activism on this front and particularly its use of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 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
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
the social fiction, as you call it, that there are very few qualified CEO candidates available? A: There are two big factors that have influenced this. The first is the rise of the institutional investor. Before this, managers were fairly autonomous from View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 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...
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- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
likely to hire compensation consultants the following year. Finally, we show that shareholders “Say-on-Pay” votes are more favorable for companies using compensation consultants, but this association is also...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Case 608-016 Cambrian House builds Internet-based products and services by relying entirely on its user community for all aspects of its innovation and new product development process. Users suggest ideas for new products and services and also participate in a monthly...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Business School Case 407-129 Briefly describes the trend in 2006 and 2007 in the United States to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation. Highlights a few examples where View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
of capital. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Friends in High Places Authors:Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians, and between politicians and firms, have a...
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
Meanwhile, Allstate continued to lose market share to GEICO and Progressive as it struggled to build its direct sales business in the face of opposition from its tied-agent distribution system. During the May 2011 Annual General Meeting (AGM), 31% of View Details
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
annual meeting, the majority of shareholders vote against the exclusive pay package. The B case compares the remuneration committee perspective (and their rationale for using discretion to award the bonuses)...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-403 Shareholder Activists and Corporate Strategy By 2015, there had been an upsurge in activist shareholders arguing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne