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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. The only time in its history when Apple raised funds on the stock market was its 1980 IPO, which provided it with $97 million.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

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Should Dual-Class Shares Be Banned?

Harvard Business Review

Council of Institutional Investors (CII), representing managers of $25 trillion assets, recently demanded limiting any company’s dual-class share structure to seven years. This clause automatically converts a superior voting share to a low-vote class at a fixed time after IPO. stock exchanges.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Traditionally, companies target angel investors in the early stages of a new business, and later look to venture capitalists, eventually culminating in an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange. Distributed Database. Is this the end of banking as we know it?