TheRainmaker
2021-12-07
Ok
Twitter made this shareholder-friendly move after Jack Dorsey resigned as CEO. Here’s why.
免责声明：上述内容仅代表发帖人个人观点，不构成本平台的任何投资建议。
分享至
微信
复制链接
精彩评论
我们需要你的真知灼见来填补这片空白
打开APP，发表看法
APP内打开
发表看法
1
5
{"i18n":{"language":"zh_CN"},"detailType":1,"isChannel":false,"data":{"magic":2,"id":606375102,"tweetId":"606375102","gmtCreate":1638839217798,"gmtModify":1638839218123,"author":{"id":3562288345465729,"idStr":"3562288345465729","authorId":3562288345465729,"authorIdStr":"3562288345465729","name":"TheRainmaker","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a2446b188392bb216f8e13ba56e44832","vip":1,"userType":1,"introduction":"","boolIsFan":false,"boolIsHead":false,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[],"fanSize":31,"starInvestorFlag":false},"themes":[],"images":[],"coverImages":[],"extraTitle":"","html":"<html><head></head><body><p>Ok</p></body></html>","htmlText":"<html><head></head><body><p>Ok</p></body></html>","text":"Ok","highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/606375102","repostId":1153425016,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1153425016","pubTimestamp":1638838903,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1153425016?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-07 09:01","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Twitter made this shareholder-friendly move after Jack Dorsey resigned as CEO. Here’s why.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1153425016","media":"Marketwatch","summary":"Twitter investors may be making a mistake by reacting so negatively to Jack Dorsey’s resignation as ","content":"<p>Twitter investors may be making a mistake by reacting so negatively to Jack Dorsey’s resignation as CEO and his being replaced by a relatively unknown company insider — Parag Agrawal.</p>\n<p>The chart below plots Twitter stock’s performance relative to the S&P 500 since Dorsey’s resignation announcement on the morning of Nov. 29. Since then the stock has lagged the S&P 500. Barron’s quoted a money manager as attributing this lagging performance to “disappointment from Wall Street that an internal successor was chosen” instead of a high-profile outsider.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dda30b2af9d20864f684a336ba26d7b6\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"471\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">My suggestion to Wall Street: Read academic research about the importance of the CEO for an organization’s long-term success. My reading of these studies suggests that Wall Street actually should be celebrating that Twitter’s board chose an insider. CEOs who come in from the outside often do a poorer job than lesser-known managers who have worked their way up through the ranks of the corporations they eventually lead — like Agrawal.</p>\n<p>This is because a corporation’s internal culture plays a much bigger role in a company’s success or failure than the CEO. Internal candidates like Agrawal are steeped in Twitter’s corporate culture and know how to navigate it. In contrast, CEOs brought in from the outside have no such familiarity, which is why they often are less-effective leaders.</p>\n<p>To be sure, a board of directors might want to bring in an outsider in order to change a firm’s internal culture. Unfortunately, in a contest between an outsider CEO and an internal culture, the latter usually wins. Gautam Mukunda, a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, has found from his research that “most of the CEOs who try to radically transform a company will fail.”</p>\n<p>‘Wall Street exaggerates the importance of the CEO.’</p>\n<p>The implication is that Wall Street exaggerates the importance of the CEO. Rakesh Khurana, a colleague of Mukunda’s at Harvard Business School who is a professor of leadership development, told me on the occasion of past CEO shakeups that “large-scale statistical studies have failed to find any direct causal link between CEOs and firm performance.” A corporation’s internal culture “exerts a far greater longer-term influence on the company’s success” than a CEO.</p>\n<p>The importance of culture</p>\n<p>What is this corporate culture that plays such a predominant role? It’s not easily defined, which is one reason why Wall Street doesn’t pay it as much attention as it deserves. A partial list of what corporate culture includes was provided by a recent study by three finance professors: Gary Gorton and Alexander Zentefis (both at Yale) and Jill Grennan (at Duke):</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Unwritten codes, implicit rules, and regularities in interactions</li>\n <li>Identities, self-image, and guiding purpose</li>\n <li>Espoused values and evolving norms of behavior</li>\n <li>Conventions, customs, and traditions</li>\n <li>Symbols, signs, rituals, and group celebrations</li>\n <li>Knowledge, discourse, emergent understanding, doctrine, ideology</li>\n <li>Memes, jokes, style, and shared meaning</li>\n <li>Shared mental models, expectations, and linguistic paradigms</li>\n</ul>\n<p>You can readily see why culture isn’t easily defined. But just because it’s hard to define doesn’t mean that it has little or no impact.</p>\n<p>An example of how big an impact culture has arises when two companies merge, either through an outright merger or an acquisition. Many studies over the years have documented that the average merger destroys value, when taking into account the market valuation of both companies and comparing them to otherwise similar companies that don’t merge. The likely culprit, according to Eric Van den Steen, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, is a “culture clash — the… destructive effects of combining two organizations with different cultures.”</p>\n<p>No guarantees</p>\n<p>To state the obvious, picking an internal candidate to be CEO is not a guarantee of success. So there is no assurance that Twitter will perform well under its new CEO.</p>\n<p>Just think back to the disappointing performance of General Electric GE, +3.49% stock when Jeff Immelt was CEO. Immelt had been working for GE for 19 years when he was appointed CEO. During his tenure, GE stock lagged the S&P 500 by more than six percentage points annualized.</p>\n<p>Still, my reading of the research suggests that GE is more the exception than the rule. Twitter has a better chance of success by naming an insider as CEO than it would have had it catered to short-sighted Wall Street investors and appointed a higher-profile outsider.</p>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Twitter made this shareholder-friendly move after Jack Dorsey resigned as CEO. Here’s why.</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nTwitter made this shareholder-friendly move after Jack Dorsey resigned as CEO. Here’s why.\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-07 09:01 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitter-made-this-shareholder-friendly-move-after-jack-dorsey-resigned-as-ceo-heres-why-11638830514?mod=newsviewer_click><strong>Marketwatch</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Twitter investors may be making a mistake by reacting so negatively to Jack Dorsey’s resignation as CEO and his being replaced by a relatively unknown company insider — Parag Agrawal.\nThe chart below ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitter-made-this-shareholder-friendly-move-after-jack-dorsey-resigned-as-ceo-heres-why-11638830514?mod=newsviewer_click\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TWTR":"Twitter"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitter-made-this-shareholder-friendly-move-after-jack-dorsey-resigned-as-ceo-heres-why-11638830514?mod=newsviewer_click","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"1153425016","content_text":"Twitter investors may be making a mistake by reacting so negatively to Jack Dorsey’s resignation as CEO and his being replaced by a relatively unknown company insider — Parag Agrawal.\nThe chart below plots Twitter stock’s performance relative to the S&P 500 since Dorsey’s resignation announcement on the morning of Nov. 29. Since then the stock has lagged the S&P 500. Barron’s quoted a money manager as attributing this lagging performance to “disappointment from Wall Street that an internal successor was chosen” instead of a high-profile outsider.\nMy suggestion to Wall Street: Read academic research about the importance of the CEO for an organization’s long-term success. My reading of these studies suggests that Wall Street actually should be celebrating that Twitter’s board chose an insider. CEOs who come in from the outside often do a poorer job than lesser-known managers who have worked their way up through the ranks of the corporations they eventually lead — like Agrawal.\nThis is because a corporation’s internal culture plays a much bigger role in a company’s success or failure than the CEO. Internal candidates like Agrawal are steeped in Twitter’s corporate culture and know how to navigate it. In contrast, CEOs brought in from the outside have no such familiarity, which is why they often are less-effective leaders.\nTo be sure, a board of directors might want to bring in an outsider in order to change a firm’s internal culture. Unfortunately, in a contest between an outsider CEO and an internal culture, the latter usually wins. Gautam Mukunda, a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, has found from his research that “most of the CEOs who try to radically transform a company will fail.”\n‘Wall Street exaggerates the importance of the CEO.’\nThe implication is that Wall Street exaggerates the importance of the CEO. Rakesh Khurana, a colleague of Mukunda’s at Harvard Business School who is a professor of leadership development, told me on the occasion of past CEO shakeups that “large-scale statistical studies have failed to find any direct causal link between CEOs and firm performance.” A corporation’s internal culture “exerts a far greater longer-term influence on the company’s success” than a CEO.\nThe importance of culture\nWhat is this corporate culture that plays such a predominant role? It’s not easily defined, which is one reason why Wall Street doesn’t pay it as much attention as it deserves. A partial list of what corporate culture includes was provided by a recent study by three finance professors: Gary Gorton and Alexander Zentefis (both at Yale) and Jill Grennan (at Duke):\n\nUnwritten codes, implicit rules, and regularities in interactions\nIdentities, self-image, and guiding purpose\nEspoused values and evolving norms of behavior\nConventions, customs, and traditions\nSymbols, signs, rituals, and group celebrations\nKnowledge, discourse, emergent understanding, doctrine, ideology\nMemes, jokes, style, and shared meaning\nShared mental models, expectations, and linguistic paradigms\n\nYou can readily see why culture isn’t easily defined. But just because it’s hard to define doesn’t mean that it has little or no impact.\nAn example of how big an impact culture has arises when two companies merge, either through an outright merger or an acquisition. Many studies over the years have documented that the average merger destroys value, when taking into account the market valuation of both companies and comparing them to otherwise similar companies that don’t merge. The likely culprit, according to Eric Van den Steen, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, is a “culture clash — the… destructive effects of combining two organizations with different cultures.”\nNo guarantees\nTo state the obvious, picking an internal candidate to be CEO is not a guarantee of success. So there is no assurance that Twitter will perform well under its new CEO.\nJust think back to the disappointing performance of General Electric GE, +3.49% stock when Jeff Immelt was CEO. Immelt had been working for GE for 19 years when he was appointed CEO. During his tenure, GE stock lagged the S&P 500 by more than six percentage points annualized.\nStill, my reading of the research suggests that GE is more the exception than the rule. Twitter has a better chance of success by naming an insider as CEO than it would have had it catered to short-sighted Wall Street investors and appointed a higher-profile outsider.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":187,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"CN","currentLanguage":"CN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":2,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ZH_CN"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/606375102"}
精彩评论