Business Horizons articles from July 1989

Business Horizons archives from July 1989

Corporate governance: who is in control here? (commercial property ownership and management)
July 1, 1989... Corporate Governance: Who Is In Control Here? There is really very little question about who is in control of our nation's businesses. Despite recent posturing regarding increased stockholder activism, greater scrutiny by institutional...

Corporate governance: fact or fiction? (composition of board of directors)
July 1, 1989... Corporate Governance: Fact or Fiction? Corporate America currently finds itself embroiled in an unprecedented level of legal battling. Among the weapons being brandished by top managements attempting to maintain their control against the...

Shareholders and issue of corporate governance: the silenced partner.
July 1, 1989... Shareholders and the Issue of Corporate Governance: The Silenced Partner Imagine the following situation. You hold stock in a Fortune 500 company, and you decide you would like to attend your firm's annual stockholders' meeting. On the...

Devil's advocacy and the board: a modest proposal. (diverse opinions among board of directors)
July 1, 1989... Devil's Advocacy and the Board: A Modest Proposal Devil's advocacy can take a board from the depths of groupthink to the heights of efficient decision making. Directors give definition to the policies to be applied in the conduct of the...

ESOPs: the 'trojan horse' of the antitakover realm. (employee stock-ownership plans)
July 1, 1989... ESOPs: The 'Trojan Horse' of the Antitakeover Realm In recent years, many articles have been dedicated to keeping corporate executives abreast of the multitudinous benefits offered by employee stock-ownership plans (ESOPs). Apparently such...

The ubiquitous leveraged buyout (LBO): management buyout or management sellout?
July 1, 1989... The Ubiquitous Leveraged Buyout (LBO): Management Buyout or Management Sellout? My objective in this article is to discuss certain elements of the leveraged buyout (LBO), sometimes referred to as taking a corporation private. In this...

Statutory limits on director liability. (protection for corporate officers)
July 1, 1989... Statutory Limits on Director Liability In the race to limit director liability, traditional favorite Delaware is getting some tough competition from other state legislatures, all seemingly intent on shrinking director liability to the point...

What men are saying about women in business: a decade later.
July 1, 1989... What Men Are Saying about Women in Business: A Decade Later In the current stir caused by Felice Schwartz's article regarding women in the corporate structure, a conversation with her produced this quote: "The male perception of talented,...

Strategies for Europe 1992. (European Economic Community)
July 1, 1989... Strategies for Europe 1992 The single most important global economic event since the formation of OPEC unfolds in 1992, when the European Economic Community (EEC) will become one market. The integrated market concept extends from EEC...

Shutting it down: a test for management. (plant closings)
July 1, 1989... Shutting it Down: A Test for Management In recent years, a growing number of American organizations have had to deal with the problems presented by facility shutdowns. Although examples from all industries can be cited, America's...

Capitalism and business: public perceptions. (surveys )
July 1, 1989... Capitalism and Business: Public Perceptions For most Americans, the phrase "big business" evokes a hodge-podge of images, ranging from bureaucracy to progress to corruption. Recently it appears that the term is also associated with...

Shared vision. (management-employee relations)
July 1, 1989... Shared Vision Jack Stack noted, "Everyone has to have an enemy. We keep our enemies outside of our operation. We focus the innate anger in people. If you can focus it outside your operation they (employees) won't turn on you internally."...

How quantitative business techniques are being used.
July 1, 1989... How Quantitative Business Techniques Are Being Used Schools of business have recently been attempting to bridge the gap between academic course offerings and the real demands of the decision-making manager. One of the greatest challenges...

The Empire Builders: Power, Money, and Ethics Inside the Harvard Business School.
July 1, 1989... The Empire Builders: Power, Money, and Ethics Inside the Harvard Business School In his book The Empire Builders: Power, Money, and Ethics Inside the Harvard Business School, J. Paul Mark asserts, "Those who care about the course of business...

Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985.
July 1, 1989... Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985 Environmental policy in the 1980s has been the focus of a large and growing number of wide-ranging, penetrating books. This was true even before popular...

Energy, Food, Environment: Realities, Myths, Options.
July 1, 1989... Energy, Food, Environment: Realities, Myths, Options Whereas Hays sees environmental science as rather rational and conservative, Vaclav Smil, in Energy, Food, Environment, sees it as full of fallacies and fads promoted by scientists. Smil...

From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888-1986.
July 1, 1989... From Monopoly To Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888-1986 George David Smith has written a fine book about an important company that has received little attention from historians. Alcoa, chartered in 1888 as the Pittsburgh...

American-Soviet Trade in the Cold War.
July 1, 1989... American-Soviet Trade In The Cold War In 1949, in response to the emerging East-West conflict, Congress sanctioned strict peacetime controls over U.S. exports for national-security purposes. This marked the beginning of anew era in both the...

Executive Integrity: The Search for High Human Values in Organizational Life.
July 1, 1989... Executive Integrity: The Search for High Human Values in Organizational Life Suresh Srivastva and Associates have joined the dialogue about business and ethics by elevating the concept of integrity to new heights. In so doing, they have...

The Rockefeller Century.
July 1, 1989... The Rockefeller Century All that money!" For years, hardly a book or article, and there have been many, about John D. Rockefeller and his descendants was able to suppress an air of "gee whiz" when faced with the fact that they controlled...

Paying for the German Inflation.
July 1, 1989... Paying For The German Inflation The main theme of this book is a conflict between morality and an inflationary economy. From 1919 to 1923, the Reichsbank covered the deficit in the federal budget. Tax revenue never exceeded 35 percent of...

Conspicuous Production: Automobiles and Elites in Detroit, 1899-1933.
July 1, 1989... Conspicuous Production: Automobiles and Elites in Detroit, 1899-1933 For much of the twentieth century, Americans have been fascinated with the automobile; therefore, Conspicuous Production: Automobiles and Elites in Detroit, 1899-1933, by...

Phoenix and the Lame Lion: Modernization in Taiwan and Mainland China, 1950-1980.
July 1, 1989... Phoenix and the Lame Lion: Modernization In Taiwan And Mainland China 1950-1980 In Phoenix and the Lame Lion, Alan Liu argues that the "economic miracle" on Taiwan can be traced to the leadership style of Chiang Kai-shek and his pragmatic...

Making a Leadership Change.
July 1, 1989... Making a Leadership Change Making a Leadership Change's greatest contribution to the human resources management literature is its sound advice for executives and managers taking over new positions and for organizations undergoing changes in...