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  • December 2012
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  • HBS Alumni Bulletin

Shareholder's Value?: Reassessing Investors' Functions

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Justin Fox
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Abstract

This article examines the three functions shareholders are supposed to provide: money, information, and discipline.

Keywords

Shareholders; Investors; Business and Shareholder Relations

Citation

Lorsch, Jay W., and Justin Fox. "Shareholder's Value? Reassessing Investors' Functions." HBS Alumni Bulletin 88, no. 4 (December 2012): 22.

About The Author

Jay W. Lorsch

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