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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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It’s a very important work, and I think that there’s probably a lot in there that we can pull out of it and say, all right, now it needs to be adapted, needs to be re-thought, but it’s by no means sort of a dead letter. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate. DAVID: I agree with you on this.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.” If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land.

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