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 frameworkcomplete with dozens of useful worksheets, checklists, case studies, and moredraws 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 frameworkcomplete with step-by-step examples