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. How could we expect that to turn out well?
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
Others like Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford channeled their wealth and power into giving back to the communities. 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.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 18, 2015
Others like Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford channeled their wealth and power into giving back to the communities. 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.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Without a large and growing middle class, Americans won’t have the purchasing power to keep U.S. 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.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2013
It features dispersed shareholders with powers to elect directors and remove them with or without cause, large stock markets, active markets for corporate control , a good legal system, strong investor protection, a rigorous anti-trust authority — the list goes on. — shareholder power makes true commitment extremely difficult.
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