Glenn Rowe is the Ivey Alumni Association Toronto Chapter Faculty Professor in Business Leadership and a Professor of Strategic Management at the Ivey Business School. He does research in the areas of corporate strategy, leader succession and strategic leadership. He teaches business unit strategy in Ivey’s MSc, MMA and AMBA programs, corporate strategy in Ivey’s MBA/HBA programs and co-teaches Responsible Governance in Ivey’s MBA program. Contact: growe@ivey.ca.
Dual-class share structures can offer stakeholders real advantages, but more firms need to follow best practices in deployment to mitigate risk of abuse.