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.

Management 70

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.

Hostile Takeover 50

Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

A low stock price can make the firm vulnerable to a hostile takeover, for example. It apparently takes a courageous and confident board member to second-guess the market! It might even be at the root of national competitiveness (or lack of it), and the economy's (in)ability to develop projects with longer gestation periods.

Short-term 14

Short-term Hostile Takeover Long-term Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The form of capitalism that has emerged in Britain is the textbook description of how to organize capital markets and corporate sectors. What exactly is wrong with the progressively greater control that banks, private equity investors, stock markets, and takeovers have exerted over the British corporate sector? Even in the U.S.,

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Commitment Banking Incentives 8