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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. Singer, looked very appealing with a good track record of value creation. Singer came on the board in October 2012.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M.