Economic Value Added (EVA) has received a lot of recognition as a measure of shareholder value creation. While the measure has been widely used for the purpose all over the world, many research studies have appeared to examine variety of issues related to EVA. An attempt has been made in this...

This paper reviews some of the causes of global warming and its consequences, and identifies Green Supply Chain Management (GrSCM) as one of the most effective ways to reduce pollution and waste, which represent incomplete and ineffective utilization of resources or inefficient conversion...

Only 25 companies out of 136 had negative return in January-September 2009 (133 in 2008). The 136 companies created value in January-September 2009 (64 billion euros), but destroyed value in 2008 (420 billion euros) and in 2007 (17 billion euros). The average return of the 136 companies was 24%...

Based on the two-valued metrics of financial performance, i.e., Economic Value Added (EVA) and Market Value Added (MVA), the current exploratory study attempts to investigate the wealth creating capabilities of India's most valuable companies. By computing these two measures for a sample of 104...

Prior to the 1990s, the Deluxe Corporation (Deluxe), the world's largest printer of checks as well as a provider of electronic products and services to financial institutions and retail companies, was characterized as a generally stable, family oriented business. This relatively calm situation...

We open up the black box of value creation in private equity with the help of confidential information on value creation plans and their execution. Plans are tailored to each portfolio company's needs and circumstances, have become more hands-on, and vary with deal type, ownership, growth...

We open up the black box of value creation in private equity with the help of confidential information on value creation plans and their execution. Plans are tailored to each portfolio company's needs and circumstances, have become more hands-on, and vary with deal type, ownership, growth...

For three academic years (2011-2014), the Harvard Law School's Shareholder Rights Project (SRP) operated a clinical program assisting institutional investors on board declassification proposals. This paper analyzes the SRP as a quasi-natural experiment to examine the value implications of...

We develop and apply a new set of empirical tools consistent with the tenets of value-based business strategies, leveraging the principle that “no good deal comes undone” and the methods of revealed preferences, to empirically estimate drivers of value creation. We demonstrate how to use...