#  John Towey: How Corporate Boards Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Stock Buyback: Contextualizing Share Repurchase Authorizations from the 1970s to the 2010s 

 



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 **October 31, 2025** 

 01:00PM - 02:30PM EDT 

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 **HBS Chao 300**  

 [111 Western Avenue  
Boston, MA 02163  
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[Peter V. Marsden Work, Organizations, and Markets Workshop](https://womworkshop.sociology.fas.harvard.edu/) presentation by [John Towey](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/john-towey), Harvard Sociology.



 

 



 

 

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