Barbarians in the Boardroom: Activist Investors and The Battle For Control Of The World'S Most Powerful Companies, 1st edition

Published by FT Publishing International (June 14, 2016) © 2016

  • Owen Walker FT newspaper
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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 public companies could be targeted by activist campaigns in the coming years, with directors and executives at those corporations threatened with losing their jobs. The trend, which began in corporate America, has spread to the UK, Europe and Asia, taking in several high profile companies.

Barbarians in the Boardroom tells a compelling story of boardroom bust ups, dumped CEOs triumphant activists and pared back companies. Itreveals real-life examples and interviews with executives and investors to explain why and how activist investors have managed to storm Wall Street and tear down City citadels. Owen Walker provides an insight into the way activists think, how they decide to target a company and how directors and executives could possibly work with them rather than against them.

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  • Chapter 1: Who are activist investors?  
  • Chapter 2: What activists want and how they get it
  • The Battles
  • Chapter 3: Boardroom coup at Darden Restaurants
  • Chapter 4: The many sieges of Yahoo
  • Chapter 5: Allergan and the unorthodox alliance
  • Chapter 6: DuPont’s Pyrrhic victory
  • The Settlements
  • Chapter 7: Microsoft’s pivotal truce  
  • Chapter 8: Hewlett-Packard’s beleaguered board  
  • Chapter 9: Walgreens and the Boots Trojan horse   
  • Chapter 10: Alliance Trust’s eleventh-hour ceasefire  
  • Chapter 11: March of the activists
  • Chapter 12: Burden of expectation
  • Postscript
  • Chapter 13: What happened next?
  • Bibliography

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