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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. 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.