DRIVING SHAREHOLDER VALUE

BusinessWeek and Harvard Business Review tout value-based management as the benchmark for creating and enhancing shareholder value. Numerous industry-leading companies embrace VBM. Now Driving Shareholder Value travels to the heart of VBM, providing approaches, perspectives, and strategies managers can use to implement VBM for better decisions and maximized shareholder wealth. The authors' one-of-a-kind value creation framework--complete with dozens of useful worksheets, checklists, case studies, and more--draws on current practices plus 25 years of VBM lessons, including: *The four guiding principles of VBM activities *Five steps to institutionalizing VBM *An integrative VBM framework--complete with step-by-step examples

Roger A. Morin, Ph.D., is a professor in Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business Administration. Dr. Morin has lectured at Wharton, Dartmouth, and the University of Montreal School of Business, and has over a quarter century of experience in executive training and corporate consulting for dozens of clients, including AT&T, Bell South, and PriceWaterhouse. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Business Administration, International Management Review, and Financial Review.

Sherry L. Jarrell, Ph.D., is assistant professor of finance and economics at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management. In Dr. Jarrell's ten years of MBA education experience, she has been a professor or lecturer at Columbia University, Emory University, Georgia State University, Indiana University, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Chicago. A popular lecturer for organizations across the country, she also has written and reviewed for numerous publications including Journal of Business, Financial Management, Quality Managers Journal, Financial Practice and Education, and Harvard Business School Press.