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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

Founder and primary owner of Icahn Enterprises, Icahn had been tagged a corporate raider for his hostile takeover of TWA in 1985. From the inception of Motorola Solutions stock at the end of 2010, its price rose by some 90 percent over the next three years, roughly twice the rise of the S&P 500 benchmark.