Suppose you decide (like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg did) to start a company. Your product is a software platform that integrates a wide range of media devices, including laptop computers, desktop computers, digital video recorders, and cell phones. Your initial market is the student body at your university. Once you have established your company and set up procedures for operating it, you plan to expand to other colleges in the area, and eventually to go nationwide. At some point, hopefully sooner rather than later, you plan to go public with an IPO, then to buy a yacht and take off for the South Pacific to indulge in your passion for underwater photography. With these issues in mind, you need to answer for yourself, and potential investors, the following questions.
1. Suppose your company is very successful and you cash out most of your stock and turn the company over to an elected board of directors. Neither you nor any other stockholders own a controlling interest (this is the situation at most companies). List six potential managerial behaviour that can harm a firm's value.
2. The manager's at KFS have heard that corporate governance can affect shareholders value. what is corporate governance? list 5 corporate governance provisions that are internal to a firm and are under its control.
3. what characterisctics of the board pf directors usually lead to effective corporate governance?
4. list 3 provisions in the corporate charter that affect takeovers.
5.Briefly describe the use of stock options in a compensation plan. what are some potential problems with stock options as a form of compensation?
6. What is block ownership? How does it effect corporate governance ?
7. Briefly explain how regulatory agencies and legal systems affect corporate governance?