Activist investors tend to rely on an element of surprise to catch their target company off guard: quietly building up a stake and swooping in with a slide deck full of strategic changes at just the ...
Starboard Value LP Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Smith said there has been at least $20 billion in value destruction at drugmaker Pfizer Inc., which he admonished for failing to deliver on a ...
Michela Tindera But despite losing Read and D’Amelio’s support, Starboard is still pushing ahead with its campaign. Yesterday, October 22nd, at an activist investor conference in New York, Starboard ...