Business and Boardrooms

Business and Boardrooms

By Michael HarrisBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Business and Boardrooms episodes

  • Ep 5 — Sell The Company

    Activists have almost stopped fighting proxy battles and started demanding something far more final — that boards sell the whole business — and the votes that used to settle these fights are being replaced by

    20 min
  • Ep 1 — The Chairman Takes The Wheel

    On Friday, Copart's chief executive walked out of the building and the executive chairman walked back into the job — and if your company has a founder-figure sitting above the CEO, this is the episode you cannot

    20 min
  • Ep 5 — The Activist Rings The Doorbell
    Starboard Value took a stake worth hundreds of millions in Shake Shack and the shares jumped about nine per cent before a single demand was made — and the fact that it arrived after a good quarter, not a bad one,
    17 min
  • Ep 4 — A Billion For A Production Line
    Sequoia led a one billion dollar round into a nuclear reactor startup at a six billion dollar valuation, and attached a two hundred million dollar credit facility — and the debt is the more interesting half of
    18 min
  • Ep 5 — Sell The Company
    Activists have almost stopped fighting proxy battles and started demanding something far more final — that boards sell the whole business — and the votes that used to settle these fights are being replaced by
    18 min
  • Ep 5 — Punished for Winning
    Barclays grew quarterly profit by nearly a third and raised its full-year guidance — and the market cut the shares by seven per cent anyway, because investors have stopped applauding growth stories and
    18 min

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Business and Boardrooms takes you inside the decisions that shape industries. From startup war rooms to Fortune 500 board tables, we sit down with the leaders, founders, and power players driving the…