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 ...
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 ...