Barbarians in the Boardroom

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-292-11398-2
Verlag: FT Publishing International

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Activist investors have sent shockwaves through corporations in recent years, personally targeting directors and executives at some of the world’s largest companies. No longer satisfied with operating on the fringes of business, they are now a firm fixture in the boardroom.

Up to a quarter of public companies could be targeted by activist campaigns in the coming years, with directors and executives at those corporations threatened with losing their jobs. The trend, which began in corporate America, has spread to the UK, Europe and Asia, taking in several high profile companies.

tells a compelling story of boardroom bust ups, dumped CEOs triumphant activists and pared back companies. It reveals real-life examples and interviews with executives and investors to explain why and how activist investors have managed to storm Wall Street and tear down City citadels. Owen Walker provides an insight into the way activists think, how they decide to target a company and how directors and executives could possibly work them rather than them.

Robert J. Swieringa, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

Robert C. Pozen. Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School, former Chair of MFS Investment Management

Barry Parr, Co-Chair of Pension Trustees AMNT and Non-Exec Director of CrowdBnk Ltd

Josh Black, Editor-in-Chief, Activist Insight

John Plender, Financial Times Columnist

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Owen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Chapter 1: Who are activist investors?
• Chapter 2: What activists want and how they get it
• The Battles
• Chapter 3: Boardroom coup at Darden Restaurants
• Chapter 4: The many sieges of Yahoo
• Chapter 5: Allergan and the unorthodox alliance
• Chapter 6: DuPont’s Pyrrhic victory
• The Settlements
• Chapter 7: Microsoft’s pivotal truce
• Chapter 8: Hewlett-Packard’s beleaguered board
• Chapter 9: Walgreens and the Boots Trojan horse
• Chapter 10: Alliance Trust’s eleventh-hour ceasefire
• Chapter 11: March of the activists
• Chapter 12: Burden of expectation
• Postscript
• Chapter 13: What happened next?
• Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Owen Walker is an experienced, awardwinning financial journalist, who has covered business and investment issues in the US, UK and continental Europe. He was formerly managing editor of Agenda, a Financial Times publication for US corporate directors, where he saw a number of boardroom battles first hand. He is now a commissioning editor within the FT’s Special Reports team in London.