Barbarians in the boardroom activist investors and the battle for control of the world's most powerful companies
Activist investors have sent shockwaves through corporations in recent years, personally targeting directors and executives at some of the world's largest companies. No longer satisfied with operating on the fringes of business, they are now a firm fixture in the boardroom. Up to a quarter of p...
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Harlow, United Kingdom
Pearson Education Limited
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1 : Introduction. Who are activist investors?
- What activists want and how they get it
- Part 2 : The battles. Boardroom coup at Darden Restaurants
- The many sieges of Yahoo
- Allergan and the unorthodox alliance
- DuPont's pyrrhic victory
- Part 3 : The settlements. Microsoft's pivotal truce
- Hewlett-Packard's beleaguered board
- Walgreen's and the Boots Trojan horse
- Alliance Trust's eleventh-hour ceasefire
- Part 4 : Conclusion. March of the activists
- Burden of expectation
- Postscript : What happened next?
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index