N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2017
What we don’t need is more CEOs who hide in safe harbors. If you sit in the big chair, you don’t get paid to make safe decisions; you get paid to make the right decision. We need CEOs who want others to do better and be better. A CEO’s job is to make good decisions regardless of how people feel about it.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2014
9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. Another hedge-fund activist, David Einhorn, was then playing that role). Carl Icahn is at it again.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 11, 2015
But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. They — and not parasitic hedge-fund managers like Carl Icahn — are the value creators.
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