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The challenges and impact of investors: what directors should do

Published on October 31, 2024   39 min

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Interviewer: Today I'm interviewing Prof. Michael Useem, Faculty Director of the Leadership Center and McNulty Leadership Program, Wharton School, and William and Jacalyn Egan Professor Emeritus of Management, University of Pennsylvania, USA, in the second of three interviews on what directors should do. All three interviews are explorations of the implications of articles written by Prof. Useem. The articles discussed today are: Why CEOs Should Push Back Against Short-Termism by Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel published in Harvard Business Review on 31st of May 2018 and Your Board Should Think Like Activists by Ram Charan, Michael Useem, and Dennis Carey also published in Harvard Business Review, but some years earlier, on the 9th of February 2015. Listeners are expected to have read both articles before listening to this interview. Prof. Useem, thank you once again for sparing the time. May I start by asking two questions. One, has the world greatly changed since the articles were published? Two, the politics question: what do CEOs and directors have to do to get the freedom to act,

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