Sentence examples for maximum shareholder from inspiring English sources

The FDA must now decide whether to act on the advice.Several investors in MCI filed lawsuits arguing that the telecom firm did not take maximum shareholder value into account when it rejected an $8 billion takeover bid from Qwest (MCI recently agreed to a $6.7 billion bid from Verizon).

And they draw from this approach the interesting implication that many (not a few) top executives are skimming mighty rents incomes in excess of what market efficiency and maximum shareholder value would dictate from the people who employ them.The key assumption of the optimal-contracting view is that managers and shareholders, in effect, negotiate at arm's length over pay.

The board and management, he said, need to "ensure that we extract the maximum amount of shareholder value in any way we can".

This had the unintended, or maybe even intended, effect of squeezing out the maximum price for shareholders.

Less informed defenders of bad company practice sometimes say that bosses cannot treat workers fairly because they have a "fiduciary duty" to return maximum cash to shareholders.

In addition, the agency will look at whether to raise, from 499, the maximum number of shareholders that a company can have and still remain exempt from public-company filing requirements, the letter said.

Companies that wish to avoid registering with the S.E.C. will be able to do so for longer because the bill raises the threshold for private firms to a maximum of 2,000 shareholders, up from 500.

In 1996, the maximum number of shareholders allowed in an S corp was 35.

Family Ties 05.26.03 Cablevision's Chuck Dolan wants a dynasty for his son and maximum value for shareholders.

There was a new philosophy that came into the fore in the early 1980s that said that the only responsibility of business is to create maximum value for shareholders.

Well, not really, as we so often hear chief executives of corporations publicly justifying extreme strategies in terms of maximum return to shareholders, measured in ever decreasing intervals that theoretically influence stock price and CEO performance bonuses from year to year.