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"Having served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, former business school dean and university president White has a surprising message: many directors don't understand their roles as stewards. Rather than seeing boards as mere vehicles for oversight and basic monitoring, he shows, in detail and with hundreds of real-world anecdotes, how boards can do better."--
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"Many Americans view Wall Street as a bastion of greed and corruption; a place that attracts people who don't deserve the money they make but are willing to break the law to get more of it. Yet for all their mistrust, many of these same Americans believe that Wall Street is essential for our economy to function. How do we fix it? Send in the Marines. Known for its exemplary discipline, the Marine Corps ensures victory by obeying key commands, such...
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"A playbook for long-term value creation. Balancing the short term and the long term is a perennial struggle, but new developments put boards squarely at the center of this dilemma and in need of guidance. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors. These so-called passive investors (unlike activist investors,...
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A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism's longest running tensions - the conflicts of interest among public company directors, managers, and shareholders - told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most legendary and controversial investors and activists.
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In The High–Purpose Company, corporate strategist and researcher Christine Arena shows that some extraordinary companies are driven by purpose, whereas others simply pretend to be. The High–Purpose Company draws a clear line in the sand, enabling readers to easily distinguish between these two groups––and make a giant leap forward. Using a groundbreaking methodology, Arena and her research team conducted thousands of hours of analysis on the...
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Today, all it takes is one organizational misstep to sink a company's reputation. Social media can be a strict ethical enforcer, with the power to convince thousands to boycott products and services. While executives are stuck on appeasing stakeholders-stockholders, employees, and consumers-shapeholders, with no stake in a company-regulators, the media, and social and political activists-are working hard to curb what they see as bad practice. Companies...
8) We are Market Basket: the story of the unlikely grassroots movement that saved a beloved business
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Recounts the history of Market Basket, a New England grocery chain whose employees and customers rallied to restore its CEO, Arthur T. Demoulas, in a book demonstrating the power of consumer loyalty in the American economy.
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This book is, based upon an International Conference on 'Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility' held at the Cordia Education Complex, Sanghol, in November 2013 under the auspices of the Lord Rana Foundation Charitable Trust, UK, and the Smt. Jawala Devi Memorial Trust, India.
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Build Business Value will give you an overview of steps you can begin taking today to build the valuable business you want.
The book does not tell you how to make and sell your product or how to deliver your service - I assume you know how to do all that. The bedrock on which business value rests is that of an excellent product or service, competently delivered, and having a competitive advantage in price, service, or quality.
Instead, this book...
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A Valuable Meeting and Procedural Reference for Business Corporations, Boards, and Shareholders.
This handy and valuable reference book bridges a large informational gap for those who are preparing for, leading, and attending board of directors and shareholders business corporation meetings. The author simultaneously draws upon the three principal sources of meeting authority on the subject including
a sample of state for-profit statutory law
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Philosophy aims at individual liberation through cessation of pain and suffering. The world around what we see is full of miseries and suffering. Human life is a saga of suffering, pain and happiness. Although happiness is there when we take the proportion of suffering and pain it is not equated or balanced. Human beings from time immemorial have been probing into this existential issues and asking the question how to eliminate pain and suffering?...
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No me montes fiestas versa sobre el bienestar y la felicidad en el entorno corporativo. Su contenido está acompañado de las vivencias de sus coautores, de casos reales, herramientas de apoyo e ideas que ayudarán a las personas y empresas a implementarlas en su entorno personal y laboral.
El título es una llamada al mundo empresarial de que el bienestar y la felicidad de sus colaboradores es algo mucho más importante que organizar una fiesta...
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All HELL is going to break loose, and, when it does, as many as 9 out of 10 small business corporations will not protect their owners. This marvelous little book exposes the deadly flaw inherent in small business incorporation and will snatch any serious entrepreneur from the abyss of inevitable legal ruin. If you already incorporated, you should READ THIS BOOK. If not, you will want to READ THIS BOOK before you take that fateful step. Dana Oliver...
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Conflict. Scandal. Derailment. These are the last words you want to hear as a shareholder, board member, or CEO of any organization, especially if you expected corporate governance to prevent these crises.
But the business world is volatile and complex. As humans, we are volatile and complex. The mechanisms of corporate governance alone are not enough to insure us-or our business-against inevitable change and challenges.
In Beyond Corporate Governance,...
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Increasing impact of the global corporations in all aspects of social life and in the environment has been the catalyst in the emergence of a new diversity of stakeholders demanding accountability about the impact of corporate activity in the life of the planet. Thus, these significant waves of increased awareness almost through the second phase of twentieth century down to the twenty first century triggered the emergence of concept called CSR. The...
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Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive and deferential board members have relied on short-term share price increases to sustain their companies long term. Driven by a desire for prosperity,...
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"The Board-Savvy CEO" is a "survive-and-thrive" handbook for nonprofit chief executive officers and executives aspiring to become CEOs. Governance expert and author Doug Eadie explains how leaders who build and maintain a close, productive partnership with their boards do a better job of translating vision into practice and achieving organizational stability, innovation, and growth. The author devotes a chapter to each of the three critical functions...
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It shouldn't be like this, but a Founder's succession in a company signals a not-so-generous change in command. It feels as if someone who had been the topmost representative of a company until "yesterday" is being ejected, or even expelled, from the organization, no matter how, big or a small, your business is. Lack of planning and empathy, which causes trauma and veritable nightmares during such a transition, occurs in small, medium, or large companies.
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