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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Harlow, United Kingdom :
Pearson Education Limited,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?