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The Stresses Of Leadership Shortens Life Expectancy

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Hostile takeovers. The researchers framed their analysis through the lens of hostile takeovers, which they reasoned cause considerable stress in the boardroom. “The health implications of stress are a very under-studied dimension for many jobs,” the researchers explain. “We

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2018

I spent almost 30 years as a lawyer in private practice, advising business leaders on Delaware corporate law issues – addressing matters like preferred stock financings, IPOs, mergers, hostile takeovers, proxy contests, corporate governance and fiduciary issues.

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How Stress Ages CEOs

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 4, 2022

A number of states enacted laws to prohibit hostile takeovers of firms, with this appearing to significantly reduce the stress experienced by CEOs. The authors note that before the recession, there appeared to be a much smaller gap between distressed and non-distressed CEOs, with the gap staying fairly stable.

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What We Can Learn About Unity from Hostile Takeovers

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Power transfers can be fraught. But there is a path forward.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That’s my concern that financial-only focus without regard to other corporate dynamics bespeaks of hostile takeovers, ill-advised rollups and corporate raider activity in search of acquiring existing books of business.

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The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

That’s my concern that financial-only focus without regard to other corporate dynamics bespeaks of hostile takeovers, ill-advised rollups and corporate raider activity in search of acquiring existing books of business.

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A Short History of Golden Parachutes

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This was quickly followed by the era of hostile takeovers in the 1980s. The junk bond market made financing large takeovers possible and even the biggest among the Fortune 500 firms were no longer safe from a forced acquisition. In the past, such takeovers had largely been restricted to the world of smaller firms.

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Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

A low stock price can make the firm vulnerable to a hostile takeover, for example. However, there are many other reasons too, and I suspect these other reasons might be more important drivers of managers' decisions. Moreover, in many cases, managers have bemoaned to us the "hell we got" from their boards when the stock price fell.

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How Business Schools Can Help Reduce Inequality

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

But starting in the late 1970s, a new vision of the corporation and the role of CEOs emerged – prodded by corporate “raiders,” hostile takeovers, junk bonds, and leveraged buyouts. American companies and American citizens achieved a virtuous cycle of higher profits accompanied by more and better jobs.

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What's Lost When Shareholders Rule

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. Even in the U.S.,

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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founder and primary owner of Icahn Enterprises, Icahn had been tagged a corporate raider for his hostile takeover of TWA in 1985. It was the directors’ decision to make, but it was one helped to catalyze into reality by Carl Icahn. But in recent times a better sobriquet has been that of activist investor.

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12 Reasons Crisis Leadership Trumps Crisis Management

N2Growth Blog

MAY 7, 2014

1) Sudden Crisis: Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, workplace violence, hostile takeovers, environmental spills, technology disruptions, etc. 2) Smoldering Crisis: Product defects, mismanagement, rumors and scandals, workplace safety, etc. Crisis Leadership is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low risk.

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