The phrase "achieve shareholder" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to achieving goals or benefits for shareholders, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "Our primary objective is to achieve shareholder value through strategic investments."
Alternatives: "maximize shareholder value" or "enhance shareholder returns."
Goldman's board is recommending shareholders vote against this proposal, saying it will "continue to pursue strategies" that it believes will achieve shareholder value.
He added that while the company was not currently planning a sale or a flotation, "ultimately we are trying to achieve shareholder value to be realised for shareholders in the business".
"Jensen seems fixated on the notion that the only way to get other benefits for society is to achieve shareholder value," said Jay W. Lorsch, a professor of human relations at Harvard's Graduate School of Business.
The letter from health professionals asks the Trust to make public "what, specifically, the Trust aims to achieve through shareholder engagement, and by when.
We thank the Trust for its openness to dialogue and its commitment to transparency, and request that you make public what, specifically, the Trust aims to achieve through shareholder engagement, and by when.
With the benefit of lessons learned in 2012, it seems likely that proponents will formulate more potent proxy access proposals in the future – both by avoiding the problems that allowed companies to exclude the proposals under SEC rules and by including thresholds that will achieve broader shareholder support.
Leslie Samuelrich, president of Green Century Capital Management, a socially responsible investment firm that is divesting from fossil fuel companies, said recently: "There have been no significant direct reductions in the production of fossil fuels achieved through shareholder advocacy over the last two decades – and there are none on the horizon".
We found that firms that match their style of strategy formulation to their environment achieve annual total shareholder return that is 4%to8%8% higher.
We suggest that one way to counter this would be to actively design future tobacco control policies so that tobacco companies face mechanisms and incentives to develop in such a way that they no longer achieve the greatest shareholder value by focusing on cigarettes.
It's a quiet, sober and carefully worded proclamation calling for the private sector to wean itself from pressures to achieve short-term shareholder value in favor of long-term growth.
The WPP proposal is the "best outcome that was capable of being achieved for shareholders," said Mr. Hearn, who will get $3.3 million if the deal is completed.
