What happens is that when one team of management fails then the shareholders who hired them lose their money, the managers get fired, and in come a new set of shareholders and managers to try and do better.
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Unfortunately, in modern corporations where ownership is separated from management, common shareholders and managers sometimes have conflicting interests, and for this reason, it is important that companies appoint qualified, independent board members to help oversee management and protect shareholder value.
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It would give him the last word on how shareholders and their managers and board members organize their own affairs.
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Most of the taxpayer subsidy has gone to enrich shareholders and Fannie managers, as a 2003 study by the Federal Reserve shows.
Shareholders and boards badgered managers to build up their new-media divisions or buy into Internet start-ups.
Corporate governance regulates the relationship between shareholders, directors and managers to prevent conflicts of interest and to increase transparency.
The best hope for shareholders, employees and managers is that the integrated new Boeing is greater than the sum of the parts.
Admirers of family-controlled companies say Investor demonstrates two of their big advantages: they are able to take longer-term decisions without worrying about being taken over or meeting short-term profit targets, and the interests of managers and shareholders are well aligned.
Business owners, corporate officers and principal shareholders, as well as supervisors and managers, can also be held personally liable.
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She wants to put America's securities law, which governs trading in equities and bonds, on a footing similar to that of corporate law, which regulates relations between managers and shareholders.
These groups were also fooled into believing that the huge financial benefits accrued from the implicit government guarantee enjoyed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, its smaller sibling, flowed mostly to their borrowers, not to their managers and shareholders.
It is well known that stock options do not perfectly align the interests of managers and shareholders.
Managers and shareholders like these deals because they are frustrated by the public market's valuations of their businesses.
When the dust cleared on those deals, the managers and shareholders were a lot richer than they had been, but Uncle Sam was poorer.
This is analogous to relationships between managers and shareholders.
No, what really bothers me is that firms (meaning, of course, their managers and shareholders) have been forced, upon penalty of fines and damages, to participate in the contentious global warming debate.
The failure, caused by political hostility and weak nerves, has been a big blow to the cause of industrial restructuring in Germany, and to the idea that shareholders, rather than politicians, trade unionists and managers, should have the final say in a company's future.
Facing growing competition and shorter-term performance pressures from shareholders, managers resorted to waves of restructuring, personnel reductions, and relocation to lower-cost regions, while leveraging balance sheets to return capital to investors.
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Boards of directors, institutional shareholders and regulators should indeed go after managers who line their pockets by granting themselves gobs of options.
To allow players to grab other companies, the game would have to simulate the interests of another company's managers, its shareholders and even press coverage of each company's maneuvers.
Analysts overwhelmingly wanted Microsoft to start distributing more earnings to shareholders, but all investors and their wealth managers should determine for themselves whether it was the right move.
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At companies owned by private equity, the board and the shareholders are one and the same: their directors are hardly under the thumb of managers.
Widely held companies are more vulnerable to hostile takeover bids a spur to managers and a boon for shareholders.
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Up to now, many of the successes on the part of Europe's minority shareholders have been won by British and American fund managers, who hold increasingly large stakes in continental firms.
Shareholders in America soon learn about underperforming managers, and such people do not last long.
On its Web site, the fund scolds corporate managers for not disclosing to shareholders the risks and costs of more environmental regulation, which many corporations have supported.
He has unsuccessfully been lobbying the company for months to issue perpetual preferred shares to its shareholders that would pay a nice yield and give hedge fund managers a new security to trade, which is the kind of thing they love.
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Miyauchi likes to talk of things like shareholders' rights and customer satisfaction, concepts that normally concern Western managers much more than Japanese ones.
And Europe's shareholders will note that standing up to managers that do not have their interests at heart is no longer such a forlorn enterprise.
From a legal perspective, corporate shareholders have the right to elect managers, oversee corporate strategy, and serve as the final arbiters of critical questions affecting their company.
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