Download or read book CEOs on a Mission written by Eric Kwame Adae and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in his analysis of CEO activism within a non-Western sociocultural context, this book presents an exciting exploration of the theoretical, managerial, practical and methodological implications of CEO activism today.
Download or read book The CEO Activist written by Leila McKenzie-Delis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the 10 key factors that will impact the success or failure of your diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts In The CEO Activist: Putting the ‘S’ in ESG, renowned diversity, inclusion, belonging, equity and culture expert Leila McKenzie-Delis delivers an inspirational and exciting guide to making your workplace—and your world—a more inclusive, diverse, accepting, and productive place. In the book, you’ll explore the 10 factors that impact visible and invisible diversity, including race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, mental health, parenthood, nationality, religion, and socio-economic status. The author walks you through the ‘S’ of Social Impact in ESG (Social Impact within Environmental, Social and Governance) and what you need to do as a self-aware, proactive, and present member of society to ensure you have your own, innate sense of self, and the ability to step into your power and claim your space with the utmost confidence. You’ll also discover: Why teams with the broadest levels of diversity tend to create the most widely relevant products and solutions for the buying public Strategies you need to follow to fortify your sense of self, step into your power, and claim your space with confidence Ways to make our schools, workplaces, and other environments more accepting, inclusive, and diverse so people from a wide range of backgrounds can thrive The CEO Activist will prove to be a hands-on and exciting book for human resources professionals, talent recruiters, and people professionals of all kinds.
Download or read book The CEO Activist written by Leila McKenzie-Delis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the 10 key factors that will impact the success or failure of your diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts In The CEO Activist: Putting the ‘S’ in ESG, renowned diversity, inclusion, belonging, equity and culture expert Leila McKenzie-Delis delivers an inspirational and exciting guide to making your workplace—and your world—a more inclusive, diverse, accepting, and productive place. In the book, you’ll explore the 10 factors that impact visible and invisible diversity, including race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, mental health, parenthood, nationality, religion, and socio-economic status. The author walks you through the ‘S’ of Social Impact in ESG (Social Impact within Environmental, Social and Governance) and what you need to do as a self-aware, proactive, and present member of society to ensure you have your own, innate sense of self, and the ability to step into your power and claim your space with the utmost confidence. You’ll also discover: Why teams with the broadest levels of diversity tend to create the most widely relevant products and solutions for the buying public Strategies you need to follow to fortify your sense of self, step into your power, and claim your space with confidence Ways to make our schools, workplaces, and other environments more accepting, inclusive, and diverse so people from a wide range of backgrounds can thrive The CEO Activist will prove to be a hands-on and exciting book for human resources professionals, talent recruiters, and people professionals of all kinds.
Download or read book Trailblazer written by Marc Benioff and published by Currency. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The founder and co-CEO of Salesforce delivers an inspiring vision for successful companies of the future—in which changing the world is everyone’s business. “The gold standard on how to use business as a platform for change at this urgent time.”—Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates and author of Principles: Life and Work What’s the secret to business growth and innovation and a purpose-driven career in a world that is becoming vastly more complicated by the day? According to Marc Benioff, the answer is embracing a culture in which your values permeate everything you do. In Trailblazer, Benioff gives readers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of one of the world’s most admired companies. He reveals how Salesforce’s core values—trust, customer success, innovation, and equality—and commitment to giving back have become the company’s greatest competitive advantage and the most powerful engine of its success. Because no matter what business you’re in, Benioff says, values are the bedrock of a resilient company culture that inspires all employees, at every level, to do the best work of their lives. Along the way, he shares insights and best practices for anyone who wants to cultivate a company culture positioned to thrive in the face of the inevitable disruption ahead. None of us in the business world can afford to sit on the sidelines and ignore what’s going on outside the walls of our workplaces. In the future, profits and progress will no longer be sustainable unless they serve the greater good. Whether you run a company, lead a small team, or have just draped an ID badge around your neck for the first time, Trailblazer reveals how anyone can become an agent of change. Praise for Trailblazer “A guide for what every business and organization must do to thrive in this period of profound political and economic change.”—Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase “In Trailblazer, Benioff explores how companies can nurture a values-based culture to become powerful platforms for change.”—Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube
Download or read book CEO Activism written by Aaron Chatterji and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CEOs on a Mission written by Eric Kwame Adae and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in his analysis of CEO activism within a non-Western sociocultural context, this book presents an exciting exploration of the theoretical, managerial, practical and methodological implications of CEO activism today.
Download or read book Do CEO Activists Make a Difference written by Aaron K. Chatterji and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay marriage to climate change to gender equality. We provide the first evidence that such “CEO activism” can influence public opinion and consumer attitudes. Our field experiment examines the impact of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s public statements opposing a pending religious freedom law that critics warned would allow discrimination against same-sex couples. Our results confirm the influence of issue framing on public opinion and suggest that CEOs can sway public opinion, potentially to the same extent as prominent politicians. Moreover, Cook’s CEO activism increased consumer intentions to purchase Apple products, especially among proponents of same-sex marriage.
Download or read book The Capitalist and the Activist written by Tom C. W. Lin and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Axiom Business Books Award Silver Medalist (Business Commentary) 2023 Nautilus Book Award Silver Medalist (Social Change & Social Justice) This is the first in-depth examination of the important ongoing fusion of activism, capitalism, and social change masterfully told through a compelling narrative filled with vivid stories and striking studies. Corporations and their executives are at the forefront of some of the most contentious and important social issues of our time. Through pronouncements, policies, boycotts, sponsorships, lobbying, and fundraising, corporations are actively engaged in issues like immigration reform, gun regulation, racial justice, gender equality, and religious freedom. Despite corporate social activism being everywhere these days-witness how quickly companies and progressives united to oppose North Carolina's bathroom bill or support the Black Lives Matter movement-there has been no in-depth examination of the far-reaching consequences of this movement. What first principles should guide businesses' approaches? How should activists engage with businesses in a way that is most beneficial to their causes? What are potential pitfalls and risks associated with corporate social activism for activists, businesses, and society at large? Weaving studies and stories, Temple University professor of law, Tom C. W. Lin offers a road map for how we got here and a compass for where we are going as a nation of capitalists and activists seeking profit and progress.
Download or read book CEO Leadership written by Thomas A. Cole and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate governance for public companies in the United States today is a fragile balance between shareholders, board members, and CEOs. Shareholders, who are focused on profits, put pressure on boards, who are accountable for operations and profitability. Boards, in turn, pressure CEOs, who must answer to the board while building their own larger vision and strategy for the future of the company. In order for this structure to be successful in the long term, it is imperative that boards and CEOs come to understand each other’s roles and how best to work together. Drawing on four decades of experience advising boards and CEOs on how to do just that, Thomas A. Cole offers in CEO Leadership a straightforward and accessible guide to navigating corporate governance today. He explores the recurring question of whose benefit a corporation should be governed for, along with related matters of corporate social responsibility, and he explains the role of laws, market forces, and politics and their influence on the governance of public companies. For corporate directors, he provides a comprehensive examination of the roles, responsibilities, and accountability the role entails, while also offering guidance on how to be as effective as possible in addressing both routine corporate matters and special situations such as mergers and acquisitions, succession, and corporate crises. In addition, he offers practical suggestions for CEOs on leadership and their interactions with boards and shareholders. Cole also mounts a compelling case that a corporate culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion and has zero tolerance for sexual misconduct is critical to long-term business success. Filled with vignettes from Cole’s many years of experience in the board room and C-suite, CEO Leadership is an invaluable resource for current and prospective directors, CEOs, and other senior officers of public companies as well as the next generation of corporate leaders and their business and financial advisors.
Download or read book Who s in Charge Here written by Clare Hack DaBaldo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CEO activism is an exists within the relationship between the CEO and their stakeholders. Through a case study analysis, I seek to understand how a CEO’s motivations to engage in activism shape its delivery and structure. In the case of Apple CEO Tim Cook speaking out about the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act, I find that Cook’s altruistic motivation to speak out publicly against the bill is indicative that the CEO activism was used as a tactical maneuver to influence stakeholders. In the case of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, I find that Fink’s client-driven motivations to issue his annual letter to CEOs reveals that the activism was used as a tactical maneuver to respond to his stakeholders’ motivations. Through this study we see that the motivations behind the CEO activism largely contributes to the delivery of the activism itself.
Download or read book Hedge Fund Activism written by Alon Brav and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedge Fund Activism begins with a brief outline of the research literature and describes datasets on hedge fund activism.
Download or read book CEO In Activism and Investor Decisions written by Michael T. Durney and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst growing pressure from investors and the general public, CEOs increasingly express their views on social, environmental, and political issues. Using an experiment, we offer initial evidence on the effect of this CEO activism on investor decision-making. Specifically, we examine how the (mis)alignment of investor and CEO views on issues more or less relevant to a firm's operations and a CEO's choice to publicly take a position (or not) affects investor decisions. Using social identity theory, we predict and find that investors purchase relatively more (less) stock when their views align (misalign) with a CEO's activist position, regardless of the operational relevance of the issue. We also highlight the pitfalls of taking an activist position - investors respond more negatively to a CEO who takes a position (versus does not take a position) on an issue that is less relevant to the firm's operations. Supplemental analyses of information search and perceived CEO appropriateness provides further provide support for our theory. Our study contributes to the emerging literature on CEO activism, the literature on CEO communication via social media, and has practical implications for CEOs.
Download or read book The Double edged Sword of CEO Activism written by David F. Larcker and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Activist CEO in the Era of Woke Capitalism written by Giusy Alessandra Rizzi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, organized in two studies, takes an in-depth look at the phenomenon of CEO activism: the extent to which top executives take a stand and speak out about polarizing issues that involve society at large, with the intent of shifting the public opinion towards their espoused position. Chapter 1 (Study 1) approaches the phenomenon of CEO activism qualitatively. By analyzing mini case studies of CEOs who have taken public stances on sociopolitical issues, it refines current definitions of CEO activism to reconcile both existing theory on the topic and provide confirmatory evidence on the phenomenon from real data. The findings confirms three conditions proposed by past scholars that CEO statements meet in order to be classified as activism: they address polarizing issues, they are unrelated to the firm's viability and performance, and they are directed at making a change in society rather than within the organization. Study 1 also reveals other critical characteristics of CEO activism: how it varies based on its riskiness, and how it is related to the focal firm. Based in part on the qualitative findings of Study 1, Chapter 2 (Study 2) turns to the organizational consequences of CEO activism. Using stakeholder alignment theory and the literature on executive symbolism, it frames CEO activism as a sensegiving process and focuses on the effects of CEO activism on organizational outcomes. I propose that the effects of CEO activism on firm performance are contingent upon whether CEO activism is perceived as congruent with employees' dominant political ideology. As a symbolic action, CEO activism has the power to influence employees' values and goals; therefore, when it is aligned with employees' political ideology, it will engender a positive employees' cognitive, affective and behavioral response in the organization, which will ultimately benefit firm performance. However, the positive outcomes derived from an alignment between CEO activism and employees' political ideology, will be hindered by the extent to which organizational members perceive the executive as not invested in the activism. When CEO activism is not consistent over time, it is perceived as merely a gesture. Furthermore, CEOs who are also firm founders tend to amplify the effects of CEO activism. All of these findings were derived from tests of a sample of 236 CEOs who engaged in activism between 2015 and 2018 and a total of 880 firm-year observations. By integrating additional data of non-activist CEOs of S&P1500 companies, Study 2 also includes post-hoc and supplementary analyses to test for endogeneity concerns, treatment effects, as well as for the plausibility of my theoretical mechanism.
Download or read book Dear Chairman written by Jeff Gramm and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism’s longest running tensions—the conflicts of interest among public company directors, managers, and shareholders—told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most legendary and controversial investors and activists. Recent disputes between shareholders and major corporations, including Apple and DuPont, have made headlines. But the struggle between management and those who own stock has been going on for nearly a century. Mixing never-before-published and rare, original letters from Wall Street icons—including Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Ross Perot, Carl Icahn, and Daniel Loeb—with masterful scholarship and professional insight, Dear Chairman traces the rise in shareholder activism from the 1920s to today, and provides an invaluable and unprecedented perspective on what it means to be a public company, including how they work and who is really in control. Jeff Gramm analyzes different eras and pivotal boardroom battles from the last century to understand the factors that have caused shareholders and management to collide. Throughout, he uses the letters to show how investors interact with directors and managers, how they think about their target companies, and how they plan to profit. Each is a fascinating example of capitalism at work told through the voices of its most colorful, influential participants. A hedge fund manager and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, Gramm has spent as much time evaluating CEOs and directors as he has trying to understand and value businesses. He has seen public companies that are poorly run, and some that willfully disenfranchise their shareholders. While he pays tribute to the ingenuity of public company investors, Gramm also exposes examples of shareholder activism at its very worst, when hedge funds engineer stealthy land-grabs at the expense of a company’s long term prospects. Ultimately, he provides a thorough, much-needed understanding of the public company/shareholder relationship for investors, managers, and everyone concerned with the future of capitalism.
Download or read book Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism written by Aaron K. Chatterji and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CEO activism refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. In the first study of this phenomenon, we investigate how CEO activism can influence public opinion about these issues and consumer attitudes about the CEO’s company. Using an experiment, we find that CEO activism can sway public opinion and increase consumers’ intentions to purchase the company’s products. However, we find that these two effects depend on the alignment between the CEO’s message and individuals’ policy preferences.
Download or read book Political Institutions Party Politics and Communication in Ghana written by Joseph R. A. Ayee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
