Measuring shareholder value has become crucial in the current economic environment, especially following the consistent pressure from institutional shareholders on companies to create shareholder value in an adverse economic environment. Maximizing the company’s value will make the company less appealing to hostile takeovers. Takeovers are a capital market mechanism designed to control the conflicts of interest between shareholders and managers of the company. In this study, the authors examine the best methods used in measuring shareholder value, and explore the process of shareholder value creation in the years prior and following the creeping takeover of Ivanhoe Mines by Rio Tinto Plc. The study is based on data and ratio analytics from ThomsonONE (Reuters), information that is publicly available through press releases, analyst coverage, and financial news. It also includes an in-depth analysis of the creeping takeover of Ivanhoe Mines by Rio Tinto Plc.

Long-term value creation—the board's new agenda. A big shift in public ownership has created a new set of challenges for boards. Index funds managed by firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street represent an emerging class of permanent institutional investors who are focused on creating and preserving long-term corporate value. These investors are stating in no uncertain terms that simply managing for short-term shareholder profit is not acceptable. Bill McNabb, Ram Charan, and Dennis Carey have been on the front lines of these changes with the investment community, corporate boards, and top-level management teams. Since TSR (total shareholder return) cannot keep the short and long term in balance, the authors argue, boards should focus on a different kind of TSR—talent, strategy, and risk—because decisions and actions around these factors, more than any others, determine whether or not a company creates long-term value. This book redefines the board's agenda and explains how to: Build and incentivize the right leadership team Help leaders take a longer view and communicate it to investors Refresh board composition and create diversity to meet the new challenges Keep major risks, such as cyberattacks and sexual harassment allegations, front and center Analyze the business through the eyes of a shareholder activist With the new realities of corporate ownership, boards need to lead for the long term. This authoritative book shows them how.

This timely and engaging book examines how maximizing shareholder value has played a dominant role in corporate governance over recent decades, and analyzes the resulting effect on share prices in the stock markets. Alongside the rise in corporate power and deepening economic inequality, the author investigates corporate law reform as a corrective remedy.

Corporate sustainability ratings are a potentially powerful but still underused tool for building a competitive, socially purposeful, and financially sound enterprise. In a globalizing world replete with business opportunities and risk, corporate boards continually need to reappraise what constitutes good governance. Traditional board duties pertaining to strategic oversight, executive compensation, and financial auditing will remain integral for the foreseeable future. But these alone will not suffice in a time when the prosperity of companies is inextricably linked to issues such as reputation, brands, supply chain management, quality and quantity of human and intellectual capital, protection of human and labor rights, and climate change. Such emergent issues are part of a historical moment in which the role of companies in fostering societal and ecological well-being at the global, national, and local levels is under increasing scrutiny. These are conditions that fuel intensifying public discourse concerning corporate social responsibility, sustainable capitalism, shared value creation, and other linked concepts that challenge the conventional wisdom that positions shareholder value as the paramount measure of company success. Indeed, sustainability is not new to the two common definitions of corporate governance: (i) the actual behavioral patterns of corporations in terms of efficiency, growth, financial structure, and other attributes; and (ii) the normative framework within which firms operate in terms of legal systems, financial markets, and labor markets.

BusinessWeek and Harvard Business Review tout value-based management as the benchmark for creating and enhancing shareholder value. Numerous industry-leading companies embrace VBM. Now Driving Shareholder Value travels to the heart of VBM, providing approaches, perspectives, and strategies managers can use to implement VBM for better decisions and maximized shareholder wealth. The authors’ one-of-a-kind value creation framework—complete with dozens of useful worksheets, checklists, case studies, and more—draws on current practices plus 25 years of VBM lessons, including: *The four guiding principles of VBM activities *Five steps to institutionalizing VBM *An integrative VBM framework—complete with step-by-step examples

Shareholder value can no longer be seen as the latest craze in the corporate classroom. It's grown up. It's redefining the syllabus by which we learn to profit or perish. It has moved into the mainstream of global corporate life where would-be winners can no longer afford to ignore it.Drawing on the experience of PricewaterhouseCoopers' worldwide network of companies and clients, this new edition of a best-selling title will provide you with the key to unlocking the secrets to real wealth creation. The impact of the information revolution, the integration of capital markets, and the increased ability of investors to compare and contrast corporate performance has put shareholder value high on the corporate agenda. These days, investors injecting money into your company are looking for a financial return as good as, if not better than, if they had invested in any other. Today's businesses need to maximize value for their shareholders or watch their share price plummet as investors vote with their feet and transfer their money and their trust into competitors' hands.Benefits In Search of Shareholder Value explains the concept of shareholder value and shows how it can help companies and their managers make better, more informed, and proactive decisions. It looks at the philosophy of value creation and at the global financial environment in which value-based management can thrive, and it transforms the insights of market analysts into management tools that can be used throughout the company to add genuine improvements to performance. The book covers every aspect of learning how to deliver value to your investors, including: introducing the basic concepts of shareholder value analyzing the theory and history behind shareholder value establishing the true cost of your capital the market's preference for judging performance on cash flow rather than profit and loss how shareholder value is being applied within emerging economies. principels of value-based management