Driving Shareholder Value: Value-Building Techniques for Creating Shareholder Wealth

Book excerpt: 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