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. This enabled the team to contrast the health of executives in industries that had gone through such turmoil with those who had not.

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Hostile Takeover Stress Leadership Analysis 137

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Last year, Jeff Smisek, the former CEO of United Airlines, received a separation payment of $4.875 million in cash along with additional equity awards and other benefits for a total of close to $37 million after being ousted from his company. Golden parachutes such are now paid out even when executives leave amid scandal.

Golden Parachute 9

Golden Parachute Hostile Takeover Airlines Execution 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

No institution is more responsible for educating the CEOs of American corporations than Harvard Business School – inculcating in them a set of ideas and principles that have resulted in a pay gap between CEOs and ordinary workers that’s gone from 20-to-1 fifty years ago to almost 300-to-1 today.

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Hostile Takeover Education CEO Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Anxiety, fear, even dread are among the predictable reactions in the executive suite and boardroom when they unexpectedly appear. Founder and primary owner of Icahn Enterprises, Icahn had been tagged a corporate raider for his hostile takeover of TWA in 1985.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8