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UNINA9910812439703321 |
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Millstein Ira M. |
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The activist director : lessons from the boardroom and the future of the corporation / / Ira M. Millstein |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations |
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Columbia Business School publishing |
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Boards of directors - United States |
Directors of corporations - United States |
Corporate governance - United States |
Corporations - Investor relations - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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A mess that can't be fixed? -- The board-centric imperative -- Revolt in the boardroom: the story of General Motors -- General Motors as catalyst -- Drexel: the most feared firm on Wall Street -- Dead broke: New York City's 1970s fiscal crisis -- Lights out: the Con-Ed blackout -- Shedding light on shadow government in New York State -- Planned Parenthood: a corporate governance success story -- Conclusion. |
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Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive and deferential board members have relied on short-term share price increases to sustain their companies long term. Driven by a desire for prosperity, not posterity, these actions can doom any company. In The Activist Director, attorney Ira M. Millstein looks back at fifty years of counseling companies, nonprofits, and governments to actively govern their corporations and constituencies. From the threat of bankruptcy and the ConEd blackout of 1970s New York City, to the meltdown of Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s, to the turnaround of General |
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Motors in the mid-1990s, Millstein takes readers into the boardrooms of several of the greatest catastrophes and success stories of America's best-known corporations. His solution lies at the top: a new breed of activist directors who partner with management and reject short-term outlooks, plan a future based on growth and innovation, and take responsibility for corporate organization, strategy, and efficiency. What questions should we ask of potential board members and how do we know they'll be active? Millstein offers pragmatic suggestions for recruiting activist directors to the boardroom to secure the future of the corporation. |
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UNINA9910631078403321 |
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Titolo |
African Perspectives on Poverty, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Innovation / / edited by Oliver Mtapuri |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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9789811958564 |
9789811958557 |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 pages) |
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Economic development |
Africa - Politics and government |
Welfare economics |
Welfare state |
Political planning |
Development Studies |
African Politics |
Social Economy |
Welfare |
Public Policy |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction. Tackling poverty and inequality -- Part 1 Povery and Indigenous Knowledge Systems -- Chapter 1. Onomastic and Conceptual Pathologisation of African Culture as a Creation and Perpetuation of African Poverty in Zimbabwe -- Cha.pter 2. Empirecrafting or Statecrafting Africa? Beyond Banal “Traditional” Witchery and Towards Rebuilding the Moral Economy -- Chapter 3. Impoverishment as a Constraint to Africa’s Social Development -- Chapter 4. Indigenous Knowledge and Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary Zimbabwe -- Chapter 5. The Efficacy of Traditional Institutions in the Conservation of Sacred Heritage Resources in Zimbabwe. |
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This book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa. Through case studies and theorizations from a distinctly African perspective, it stands in contrast to current theoretical works in the field, which remain very much rooted in Western-orientated thinking. The book investigates the application of methodologies which explain numerous African contexts in connection with issues of poverty and inequality. It reflects on comparative practices and praxes on the African continent, including commonplace traditions and practices in alleviating poverty, taken against a background of the failure of current prescriptions for poverty alleviation, such as the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). There is a dire need for new practical perspectives which move Africa forward using its indigenous knowledge. Owing to a general lack of recorded African theories and methodologies on poverty, inequality and innovation, this book represents a pioneering corpus of African knowledge addressing poverty and inequality through local innovations. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, it is relevant to students and scholars in development studies and economics, African studies, social studies, political history and political economy, climate studies, anthropology and geography. |
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