Sentences with phrase «term shareholder pressures»

Bowing to short - term shareholder pressures that felled predecessor Mark Fields, Hackett is undoing 115 years of Ford's automobile legacy.

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«But in fact, the new «activist» investors pushed for seats on boards and pressured management into policies that were viewed as more «shareholder - friendly» — meaning friendlier to short - term investors — including increasing dividends and buyouts.»

We envy them all and want to emulate them but know that they are just people dealing with struggles of a different magnitude from the pressures of going public, the pressures of pricing competition, the pressures of over-reaching of journalists and regulators and the pressures of activist public shareholders with short - term expectations.

When the company went public in 2004, Page and Brin publicly declared that Google would never sacrifice long - term goals in response to pressure from shareholders.

Due to growing pressures from short - term shareholders and increasing regulations, companies have been severely constrained in making targeted, long - term investments that drive social change.

And when disgruntled shareholders can't oust top managers, it's often argued, they are better able to deflect the pressure to sacrifice long - term performance for short - term return.

GE's long - term shareholders have suffered in part because the company's executives are responding to short - term pressures.

The phenomenon is the result of several converging forces: pressure from activist shareholders; executive compensation programs that tie pay to per - share earnings and share prices that buybacks can boost; increased global competition; and fear of making long - term bets on products and services that may not pay off.

Rather than feeling pressure to, say, cut a research and development group to boost the short - term bottom line, the laws enable company management to keep betting on innovation investment even when it does not maximize shareholder value at every given moment.

The company is privately owned and operates in a similar fashion to a mutual company in that it does not need to answer to shareholders and the short - term earnings pressures publicly traded companies are under.

We have no outside owners, so we have no pressure to meet short - term earnings expectations and we're free to focus on the long term, which we think is the right outlook for fund shareholders.