http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2007/10/29/europes-highest-court-strikes-down-takeover-protections-in-german-c/ Sponsored by the HLS Corporate Governance Program Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:31:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2007/10/29/europes-highest-court-strikes-down-takeover-protections-in-german-c/comment-page-1/#comment-7667 Matthew Hartogh Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:17:43 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2007/10/29/europes-highest-court-strikes-down-ta#comment-7667 Maastricht NL Matthew Hartogh The same principles survive today, forming the bone and sinew of the civil codes regulating the modern Dutch corporation. Commerce must always be measured against long term productivity. Efficiency in the capital markets must always be measured against efficiency in the goods market, and both must measure themselves against considerations of the proper use of human capital. This word "measure", maatregel, punctuates the corporate literature in the Netherlands, but it is a word I have not often seen printed in the Wall Street Journal or The New York Times.   Maastricht NL Matthew Hartogh
The same principles survive today, forming the bone and sinew of the civil codes regulating the modern Dutch corporation. Commerce must always be measured against long term productivity. Efficiency in the capital markets must always be measured against efficiency in the goods market, and both must measure themselves against considerations of the proper use of human capital. This word “measure”, maatregel, punctuates the corporate literature in the Netherlands, but it is a word I have not often seen printed in the Wall Street Journal or The New York Times.
 

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