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Sexual Harassment Foreshadows Weak Stock Performance: Study
How much does a high incidence of sexual harassment within a company hurt firm value?
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Vincent Ryan
| August 17, 2020
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Strategy
Acquirers Again Underperformed the Broader Market in 2019
Dealmakers' share-price performance trailed the MSCI World Index by five points, and deal volume sank as tensions left companies in wait-and-see mode.
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David McCann
| January 9, 2020
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Tax
Do Clawback Policies Accomplish Their Desired Purpose?
They may, but new research surprisingly suggests that clawbacks may also prompt managers to drive down their companies' effective tax rates.
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David McCann
| December 16, 2019
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Strategy
After 21 Years and a Spinoff, Profitability Finally Arrives
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is in the black for the first time thanks to its complex spinoff of pre-commercial drug development programs.
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David McCann
| September 24, 2019
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M&A
M&A Market Guts Shareholder Value in Second Quarter
Shares of deal-making companies worldwide underperform MSCI stock indices for a record seventh consecutive quarter.
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David McCann
| June 28, 2019
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Training
Sales Calls from Inside Prison Walls
Lead-generation firm Televerde puts purpose over profit by employing hundreds of incarcerated women to make sales calls and improve their lives.
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David McCann
| February 21, 2019
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M&A
Are Buyers Fudging the Synergies of M&A Deals?
Although acquisitions frequently fail, acquiring companies are ballyhooing their financial benefits as transaction prices steadily rise.
By
David McCann
| September 18, 2018
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Planning
Usage of Variance Analysis Is, Well, Variable
While it's not debatable that variance analysis is an important FP&A tool, companies differ in how they apply it.
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Thomas E. Conine Jr. and Michael B. McDonald IV
| April 23, 2018
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Risk & Compliance
Share Buybacks: Who Really Benefits?
Corporations should exist for a greater purpose than maximizing value to shareholders — and executives.
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Sviatoslav Rosov and Kurt Schacht
| January 5, 2018
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Mergers & Acquisitions
What Kind of Value Generator is Your Company?
Is your company a golden goose, a unicorn, or a ship of the desert?
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Ken Stillwell
| May 9, 2017
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Growth Strategies
‘Shareholder Value’ for Private Companies
Private companies may benefit even more from a shareholder value focus than publicly listed companies do.
By
Gregory V. Milano
| August 4, 2016
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Strategy
Softbank to Split Domestic, Overseas Units
The Japanese conglomerate's move may ease investor concerns that it would use money earned in Japan to help turn around loss-making Sprint.
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
| March 7, 2016
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Investor Relations
Investors Are Less Interested in Short-Term Results than You Think
They're also more interested in qualitative information, relative to quantitative data, than is commonly assumed.
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David McCann
| June 16, 2015
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Strategy
Shareholder Value and CSR: Friends or Foes?
How to practice corporate social responsibility while maintaining shareholder value and without sacrificing analytical rigor.
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Richard T. Bliss
| February 9, 2015
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Workplace Issues
Smart Choices, Smart Workers
Readers comment on stories about open-plan office design, swap futures, shareholder value, and wellness programs from &splt;i>CFO&splt;/i> and CFO.com.
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| February 7, 2013
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