He was Kidder's chairman and a large shareholder when General Electric bought the business in 1986.
He now sits on the board and Berkshire is a large shareholder in the combined company.
It is often in the interests of a single large shareholder to keep a close eye on managers.
Particularly for companies with large shareholder bases, the annual report is already an expensive proposition to print and distribute thick reports out to millions.
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigned from the tech company's board in January, after criticism over his multiple roles, which included being a large shareholder and former CEO.
IFIL, a large shareholder, had threatened to withdraw its support.
The deal is a big win for Mr. Karp, who remains a large shareholder, and the site's early venture investors, which include Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Sequoia Capital.
As a result of these restructurings, the U.S. government and the labor unions became large shareholders of both General Motors and Chrysler, and Fiat SpA stepped in as a large shareholder of Chrysler.
Agassi remains a large shareholder in Better Place.
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Luxor Capital Group LP, a large shareholder that previously suggested changes to management, was uninvited to the lunch, according to court papers filed this week by Luxor as part of a lawsuit against CommonWealth's management.
"Focusing on consolidated results is only about the past, and I would think it far more productive for the future to analyze and judge the entities on their own merits ... as a large shareholder in each, that is certainly what I intend to do, " said Diller of the mixed results this quarter.
Veteran management and a large institutional shareholder base are additional plusses to assist the stock price and dividend going forward.
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He called Berninger "a victim"--he was a large CellCyte shareholder--of what he said was a "pump and dump" orchestrated by Pierce.
Their performance related rewards are determined in large part by total shareholder return, which is dominated by what has happened to the share price.
Many large corporations have had grassroots shareholder-inspired initiatives that resulted in a mix of socially conscious mission-based ventures.
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Large corporations have excuses: shareholder scrutiny, stodgy bureaucracies and years of habit.
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On the one hand these managers may be some of the largest, if not the largest shareholder of a large corporation and as such may ostensibly hold great voting power.
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He bought small stakes in large companies and tried to invoke shareholder rights to open their books.
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That rule has motivated companies like Facebook to channel pre-IPO stock sales to single, large investors, to keep the shareholder base down.
Ms Bailey had said she would leave at the end of the year following shareholder anger over her large pay packet and deteriorating sales figures.
Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises large investors how to vote in corporate elections, recommends a "no" vote for an average of 13% of say-on-pay votes a year.
Aabar, which is a major shareholder in Mercedes and has large stakes in banking and aviation companies, had never previously invested in real estate outside of Abu Dhabi.
Success in this new world of manufacturing will require management that is radically different from the hierarchical bureaucracy focused on efficiency and shareholder value that is now prevalent in large firms like GE.
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Separately, Vivus has now succumbed to shareholder pressure and begun holdings talks with large drugmakers to market its Qsymia diet pill, which has so far failed to live up to its promise, despite becoming the first commercially available prescription diet pill to be approved by the FDA in more than a decade.
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The only problem with this reasoning is that right now corporate raider Carl Icahn is exerting pressure on both Navistar and Oshkosh, having bought large blocks of their stock in order to agitate for better shareholder returns.
How does shareholder activism play into this thinking, specifically those of large institutional investors?
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But this leads to another problem, since it leaves the central bank and the government, already the largest shareholder at several big banks, in control of an increasingly large amount of shares (though much of this is counted as shares held by trust banks).
The usual shareholder-owned-fund sponsors charge big fees and take a large fraction of them to their bottom lines.
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