Finally, a book that brings the vision of truly good governance down to earth. Ram Charan, expert in corporate governance and best-selling author, packs this book with useful tools and techniques to take boards and their companies to a higher level of performance. Charan puts his finger on a growing problem for boards: the disconnect between directors' efforts and their results. The a…
Founded in the early 1980s, SSA is a general, retained search firm with exclusive allegiance to client organizations, affiliated with a network of powerful international resources and has a division devoted to corporate boards, helping companies, public and private, small and large, structure, strengthen, diversify and benchmark their statutory and advisory boards. Board of directors can spe…
IBM reports $15 billion of annualnew revenues from 22 EmergingBusiness Opportunities. In 2008, $4 billion in revenues fromcompanywide innovation efforts allowedWhirlpool to maintain its top line, despiteglobal recession and the steep dropin housing markets. A DuPont business group leader,Ellen Kullman, backed an ambitious newbusiness creation program and laterbecame DuPont’s CEO. Eac…
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Ch. 1 The Promising World of Mergers and Acquisitions Ch. 2 Strategic and Financial Objectives: The Drivers of Integration Ch. 3 Laying the Groundwork: Managing the Transaction Stage Ch. 4 Assessing Key Target People Ch. 5 Preparing Stakeholder Communications and Value Preservation Ch. 6 Preparing for Integration: Managing the Transition Sta…
In recent years, risk management has been defined as merely eliminating or reducing risk exposure. Companies are learning today that is far to naroow and constaring a definition. Risk, exploited judiciously, is absolutely central to business success. In this book, author covers both sides of the risk equation, offering a complete framework for maximizing profit by 'limiting' some risk and 'expl…
Corporate Financial Strategy is a practical guide to understanding the elements of financial strategy, and how directors and advisors can add value by tailoring financial strategy to complement corporate strategy. The book sets out appropriate financial strategies over the key milestones in a company’s life. It discusses the practicalities behind transactions such as: * Raising venture ca…
The past twenty years have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance. Whereas once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations--equity, debt, and valuation--today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management, relationships between banks and corporations, and the macroeconomic impact of corporations. However, this …
In today's competitive business environment, corporate managers must find innovative ways to promote rapid and sustainable growth. As part of the CFA Institute Investment Series, Corporate Finance has been designed to help you develop the skills to achieve this goal. The distinguished team of Michelle R. Clayman, CFA, Martin S. Fridson, CFA, and George H. Troughton, CFA—together with a num…
corporate finance as the working of a small number of integrated and powerful intuitions, rather than a collection of unrelated topics. They develop the central concepts of modern finance: arbitrage, net present value, efficient markets, agency theory, options, and the trade-off between risk and return, and use them to explain corporate finance with a balance of theory and application. The well…