(5) Therefore, CVCs frequently experience difficulties in recruiting and retaining talented employees (
Gompers and Lerner, 2000), further undermining their ability to provide value-added services to entrepreneurial companies.
(48) Professor Stevenson notes that "corporations, like individuals, are entitled to keep secret all information they are able to secure physically unless some particular reason for disclosure--as, for example, in the case of the policies embodied in the securities laws--could be adduced in support of a contrary rule." (49) On the other hand, scholars such as Professors Bebchuk (50) and
Gompers (51) have stressed that shareholder democracy, which entails management sharing some information and decision-making ability with owners, will likely increase a publicly-traded company's performance.
The literature on corporate governance uses the G-index of
Gompers et al.
For such companies the expertise of the venture capitalist, its knowledge of markets and of the entrepreneurial process, and its network of contacts are most useful to help unfold their growth potential (Bottazzi, Da Rin and Hellmann, 2004;
Gompers, 2005; Hellmann and Puri, 2002; Lerner, 1994, 1995; Lindsey, 2003).
Meanwhile, union leader Samuel
Gompers befriended McKinley and was "increasingly using middle-class language" to argue for higher wages and an eight-hour workday.
Most central to the first half of the book is Sinyai's treatment of Samuel
Gompers, the leader of the AFL through its formative years.
Gompers Elementary School is located in what demographers would call an "impoverished area" on Detroit's far west side.
Ironically, the current crop of teacher union leaders seem less like such labor lions as Samuel
Gompers and Walter Reuther and more like Charlie Wilson, the imperial president of General Motors.
When the American union leader Samuel
Gompers was asked: "Whaddya want for your members?" he replied: "More." Maybe that was the right response then, but not any more.
The other--represented by the American Federation of Labor (AFL), tinder the leadership of Samuel
Gompers and his successors allowed only persons in the skilled trades to become members.
Nor has it budged from the style of "business unionism" developed by Samuel
Gompers in the early twentieth century, in which unions act much like big insurance companies, offering their "consumers" the prospect of better wages and job security.
To make child labor reform possible, Sallee argues, Samuel
Gompers and child-welfare advocates pursued their campaign in terms that resonated with a broad range of Southern interests, including the mill owners who benefited from low-paid child labor, poor white parents who depended on the wages of their children, and white Southerners, more generally, who resented any reform agenda that originated outside the region.
Thereafter, Samuel
Gompers and the AFL served as important allies of organized workers in Puerto Rico.
"Last year I was a writer-in-residence for 10 days, when I starred
Gompers which was commissioned by the Pittsburgh City Theatre.
