The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation

by Ira M. Millstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231181345
• ISBN13: 9780231181341
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher