THE VALUE SPHERE
The Corporate Executives' Handbook for Creating and Retaining Shareholder Wealth
(4th Edition)
by John Boquist (Indiana University of Bloomington, USA) , Todd Milbourn (Washington University in St Louis, USA) , & Anjan Thakor (Washington University in St Louis, USA)
Table of Contents (275k)
Overview (19k)
Introduction (26k)
Chapter 1: The Firm and the Value Sphere: How do We Maximize the Creation and Retention of Value? (102k)
Chapter 2: Time for Action: Jerry Says Hello to Finance and Takes the Plunge (184k)
Chapter 3: Business Growth, External Financing, and Ipos: Jerry is Introduced to the One for Me, None for You Slogan (211k)
Chapter 4: Jerry Says Hello to his New Shareholders: Agency Costs and Corporate Governance (83k)
Chapter 5: Why Firms Fail to Maximize Shareholder Value: How Value Evaporates (102k)
About the Authors (26k)
This book, written in story narrative form, traces the development of a company from a start-up to a global enterprise. It develops the key concepts related to this evolution — corporate strategy, raising external finance, capital budgeting, dividend policy, mergers and acquisition, globalization, marketing and human resource management. The focus is on topics in corporate strategy and corporate finance, and each topic is developed in depth with problem sets and reflection questions within the context of the organization's evolution.
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- Time for Action: Jerry Says Hello to Finance and Takes the Plunge
- The Source of Value: Strategy
- Risk and Value: Why Should Jerry Care?
- More on Economic Profit
- Comprehensive Resource Allocation: A Training Seminar
- Acquiring a Firm
- Resource Allocation for Non-Traditional Projects
- Post-Acquisition Integration Issues
- Managing in Tough Times Versus Innovating
- and other papers
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| Readership: Academics teaching and studying organizational behavior, corporate governance, managers, CEOs and CFOs. |
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“The Value Sphere book was a revelation to me. The value concepts presented are so essential to business success I have asked my entire management team to read, study, and implement the lessons of the Value Sphere.” |
Bill Hunt, Chairman
Former President and Chief Executive Officer
Arvin Industries, Inc |
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“An important read for all companies, particularly for those in the Internet space. Successful companies better learn how to create value, and quickly, if they want to survive. This book provides the road map to show you how.” |
Jim Ritchie
President and Chief Executive Officer
Transportation.com |
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“John, Todd and Anjan spin an engaging tale that actually makes the application of advanced value creation concepts interesting. Good job!” |
Harry Burritt
VP, Corporate Planning and Development
Whirlpool Corporation |
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“In The Value Sphere: Secrets of Creating & Retaining Shareholder Wealth, Professors Boquist, Milbourn and Thakor provide a conversational and leisurely, albeit comprehensive, sojourn through the world of corporate financial management. Accessibility is not achieved, however, at the sacrifice of content: All the obligatory topics are covered intuitively, along with more nuanced issues such as quality and real options. Practical problems are plumbed using the essential tools of finance in order to demonstrate the power of financial economics, and the delivery is what one would expect from master expositors. Boquist and Thakor are among the leading teachers of finance to executive audiences, and Milbourn, the junior partner of the team, is a gifted teacher in his own right. It shows! This book will serve well those coming anew at the bewildering finance issues that routinely confront a corporate board or a CFO.” |
Stuart Greenbaum
Former Dean, Olin School of Business
Washington University |
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“Superb … Supreme confidence and very, very solid in his subject matter. Excellent pace, energy and crisp in his teaching approach. Very talented person, very good teacher. The Value Sphere is a great book (I managed to get up to Chapter 12 during this course and it is a very well discussed account of basic finance and shareholder value concepts). I am confident the rest of this book will be as enlightening as the first 12 chapters. Recommended reading for every finance professional.” |
Participant in University of Michigan Business School
Executive Education Program: Corporate Financial Management, Hong Kong |
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“I am very impressed with the topics and writing. It seems to easily incorporate and summarize all of the concepts we have learned in the MBA program. It is very interesting reading indeed. I look forward to reading the rest of the book. I plan to recommend the book to my colleagues as Agilent Technologies when I begin my post-MBA career in July!” |
S Scott Smaistria
CPA, CMA, MBA |
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| 472pp |
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Pub. date: Aug 2009 |
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