1 Introduction: Corporate Ownership -- Part I Hardware: A Value Creation Framework -- 2 The Primacy of an Owner’s Mission -- 3 The Board of Directors: Governing the Mission -- 4 The CEO and the Executive Team: Responsible for Executing the Mission -- 5 Goals, Strategies, and Fundamentals -- 6...

Managerial flexibility has value in the context of uncertain R&D projects,as management can repeatedly gather information about uncertain project and market characteristics and, based on this information,change its course of action.This value is now well accepted and referred to as real option...