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- 01 Oct 1997
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High Fives
chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. In recent years Blackstone has invested in about seventy corporate and real-estate transactions with a total value of more than $20 billion. Most important thing learned at HBS: “The integration of...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
term. “It is these shareholders who pushed companies to generate returns at levels that were not sustainable. They also made sure high returns were tied to management...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
S. McNamara, were few; he apparently did not return for reunions nor did he contribute to the Bulletin’s Class Notes. At graduation, MacDonald requested that his diploma be mailed to him. From Cambridge, MacDonald moved his family back to...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
prompted its resurgence were notable not just for their boldness or the returns they generated. It was also for their source: a 29-year-old in her first year on the job. A four-year-old Nisa and her father, Adi Photo courtesy of the...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Peter Harf, MBA 1974
detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
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Holding Business to Account
important to their bottom line: gender equity. “I suddenly realized the power, the reach we had as shareholders,” Aiyer recalls with some amazement. After that experience, “the idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says....
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- 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...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Capitalism’s False Mantra
was aligned with the interests of shareholders. If the company’s stock did well, executive pay would rise in concert. Thus was born the idea that CEOs should serve to maximize shareholder value, the mantra that has defined the business...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
returns for shareholders and enabling Slayton to take a sabbatical), it had gained 75 percent of worldwide marketshare in VRML authoring products. Slayton's latest ventures include developing an oil mapping...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of '97 Placement Statistics Similar for September and January Cohorts
Preliminary placement figures (as of August 1997)* Total September Cohort January Cohort Average satisfaction with job offer (on a scale of 1-low to 7-high) 6.1 6.1 6.1 Average number of companies contacted 20 19 21 Average number of...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Reunited and It Feels So Good
The Class of 1963 broke an attendance record for the 35th Reunion, with a total of 187 alumni and guests returning to Soldiers Field. Annual giving was at an all-time high as well, with gifts and pledges to...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
Raised in Seoul, Yu came to the United States when he was 13. After majoring in computer science in college and following a stint as an engineer, he returned home and reclaimed his Korean nationality. Knowing that he wanted to become a...
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- 24 Jul 2018
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How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
to the failing performance and then encouraging everyone to focus on making hard decisions quickly," says Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, whose office shares a small hallway with Hood’s. So what was the plan to View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
shareholder engagement: How can shareholders move the needle? One example that Shawn and I worked on was with CalSTRS, the California pension plan for educators. Following the increase in school shootings,...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
short-term results with adherence to a long-term strategy and direction. At Cummins, we are driven by the concept of maximizing shareholder value -- but the question is, value over the next quarter or two, or over a longer period? Either...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
As a business, HBS had a banner year in fiscal 2006. Demand for the School’s Executive Education programs was up, sales of cases and other print products grew, the MBA Program attained a 91 percent admissions yield, and total revenue...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
those students whose perspectives could take a case discussion to the next level. Andreas was fascinated with management theories and brought a great deal of enthusiasm to the classroom." After completing the AMP, Andresen faced the decision of whether to View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan
CSR often cite Milton Friedman, who famously said that “the social responsibility of business is to increase profits.” Do you agree? I absolutely think it’s too narrow a view. In the decade of the ’90s, maximizing shareholder value became...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy helped boost total...
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- 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 options. During the bull market years...
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