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The activists are coming!

by Paddy Hirsch
Apr 21, 2015
Spring is shareholder meeting season — and primetime for activist investors.
A photo from  February 2006, where activist investor Carl Icahn, right, was pictured with former Viacom and Universal Studios CEO Frank Biondi, left. At the time, Icahn sought to overthrow Time Warner's board, break up the media conglomerate into four companies, and have Biondi take over as Time Warner chief executive.
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Outsourcing the board of directors

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Nov 28, 2014
Law professors make a radical proposal: Scrap the traditional board of directors.
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Corporate boards mostly a boys-only club

by Ashley Milne-Tyte
Jun 24, 2014
Large investment funds like Calpers are trying to add diversity to the boardroom.
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What are corporate boards for?

by Eve Troeh
Dec 14, 2012
Yahoo has had four different CEOs in quick succession. Now it's changed almost all its directors in a single year. What can that say about a company?
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