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Article reprints are $10 each. Click to add to shopping cartShareholder Value  There Are No Shareholders Anymore -- How to run a business when your ownership turns over every year (or less). By Directors & Boards columnist Gary Sutton.
Third Quarter 2006 [1 page(s)] Unprecedented Corporate Charity -- Reflections on the corporate response to Hurricane Katrina and its implications (if any) for charitable giving that more closely serves a company's and its shareholders' interests. By Directors & Boards Publisher Robert H. Rock.
Fourth Quarter 2005 [1 page(s)] At GM, Directors Drive into a Ditch -- The board bears a big responsibility for reckless handling. By Gary Sutton, Directors & Boards columnist.
Third Quarter 2005 [1 page(s)] Good Directors Ignore the Stock Price -- It's too distracting, and it's not what really matters anyway. By Gary Sutton, Directors & Boards columnist.
First Quarter 2005 [1 page(s)] Roadblocks to the Embrace of EVA -- Only an enthusiastic CEO can overcome an uncongenial corporate culture and other hazards that would subvert an EVA program's implementation. By Joel Stern of Stern Stewart & Co. and John Shiely of Briggs & Stratton Inc.
Spring 2001 [4 page(s)] Panel Discussion: Whose Company Is It Anyhow? -- At the opening of the new Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, panelists and audience alike wrestled with the fundamental concept of shareholder ownership of the corporation.
Fall 2000 [3 page(s)] The Politics of Market Cap Destruction -- The mere accusation of accounting impropriety can produce the punishing effects of guilt. By Hoffer Kaback, Directors & Boards columnist.
Winter 2000 [1 page(s)] Revitalizing Underperforming Business Units -- An otherwise healthy company may have an underperforming business unit that damages overall financial results. Since investors will not tolerate such a situation for very long, management needs a proven disciplined process -- such as described in this article -- to remedy the problem. By Stephen Cooper of Zolfo Cooper LLC.
Spring 1999 [3 page(s)] Competitive Advantage and Shareholder Value -- Why engaging in value-creating investments despite stock market skepticism is in the best tradition of shareholder-value management. Also, 10 value-creation questions for the board. By Alfred Rappaport of Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Winter 1998 [4 page(s)] Business Process Outsourcing: Taking the Pain Out of Growth -- A special report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Winter 1998 [7 page(s)] The Street Blinked -- Of Compaq Computer's Board of the Year Award and Wall Street's reaction. By Directors & Boards Editor James Kristie.
Winter 1998 [1 page(s)] Become a Master of Capital Management -- Cost of capital is the largest controllable source of costs that management can influence in most companies today. Here are eight benefits of having a cost-of-capital advantage over your competitors. By Donald Mitchell of Mitchell and Co.
Summer 1998 [5 page(s)] Putting a Value on Governance -- A McKinsey & Co. survey on how a company's governance can influence its attractiveness to investors. By R.F. Felton and A. Hudnut of McKinsey & Co. and J. van Heeckeren of the University of Oregon.
Spring 1997 [4 page(s)] On Coming Up to Code -- The relationship between corporate governance and share performance is an imprecise one. By Sir Adrian Cadbury, former chairman of Cadbury Schweppes.
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