Lead-generation firm Televerde puts purpose over profit by employing hundreds of incarcerated women to make sales calls and improve their lives.
While acquiring companies have underperformed stock indexes for the past two years, the outlook for M&A may be brightening.
While there are different ways to measure the success of M&A deals, shortly after deals close investors tend to expect they'll deliver incremental value.
Although acquisitions frequently fail, acquiring companies are ballyhooing their financial benefits as transaction prices steadily rise.
While it's not debatable that variance analysis is an important FP&A tool, companies differ in how they apply it.
Corporations should exist for a greater purpose than maximizing value to shareholders — and executives.
Is your company a golden goose, a unicorn, or a ship of the desert?
Private companies may benefit even more from a shareholder value focus than publicly listed companies do.
The Japanese conglomerate's move may ease investor concerns that it would use money earned in Japan to help turn around loss-making Sprint.
They're also more interested in qualitative information, relative to quantitative data, than is commonly assumed.
How to practice corporate social responsibility while maintaining shareholder value and without sacrificing analytical rigor.
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