Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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Management Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Clearly, some of these traders could get very rich even while others lose money, but these trades — unless they influence operators within companies — amount to little more than robbing Peter to pay Paul. A low stock price can make the firm vulnerable to a hostile takeover, for example.

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Short-term Hostile Takeover Long-term Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

A half-century ago, CEOs typically managed companies for the benefit of all their stakeholders – not just shareholders, but also their employees, communities, and the nation as a whole. American companies and American citizens achieved a virtuous cycle of higher profits accompanied by more and better jobs.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Education CEO Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

But as we have suggested elsewhere, activists are here to stay , and are increasingly prominent players on the equity landscape—sometimes even inside the company boardroom. More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

which is by global standards pretty close to the textbook, would-be reformers often cite the British example (on shareholder input into executive pay, for example, or the ease of hostile takeovers) as something to strive toward. Boards Leadership Mergers & Acquisitions' Even in the U.S.,

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Hostile Takeover Banking Commitment Incentives 8