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Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Much has been made in recent years about the pernicious influence of short-term investors on corporate performance. I believe these arguments often miss a nuance: It is not the short-term investor but short-term management that is the problem. Indirectly though, these short-term traders can destroy value.

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Short-term Hostile Takeover Long-term Management

An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founder and primary owner of Icahn Enterprises, Icahn had been tagged a corporate raider for his hostile takeover of TWA in 1985. Activist investors need not be a short-term extortionist nor a wrecking ball in the boardroom, and from Greg Brown’s experience at Motorola and then Motorola Solutions, we have a proof of concept.

Hostile Takeover

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan

Leadership Digital

Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

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