What managers misunderstand about shareholder value
The reasoning over short-term orientations is deeply flawed, writes Alfred Rappaport Why do companies obsess over quarterly earnings and fail […]
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Seven Deadly Fallacies of Activist Investing’s Critics
Fallacy One: The terms short-term and long-term are used confusingly to mean different things at different points in the discussion. […]
The Savviest Lobbyist
The head of the Humane Society, with the help of Carl Icahn, got McDonald’s to change its policy toward pork. […]
Shareholder Activism, the Short-Termist Red-Herring, and the Need for Corporate Governance Reform
The “meh” economy that accounts for some of the sourness in the American electorate is partly due to a design […]
Activists boost innovation as well as share prices: James Saft
It looks as if hedge fund activists engineer not just a short-term pop in target firms’ stock prices but also […]
Circa will make case in Washington that activism is good for companies, economy
The activists are taking on Washington. Billionaire investors Paul Singer, Carl Icahn, Barry Rosenstein, William Ackman andDaniel Loeb are setting […]