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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. With two separate balance sheets, management could plan around the risk variables (i.e. Over the last three years the U.S.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

The 2014 numbers above include two new Fed board members (Stan Fischer and Lael Brainard) and one renominated to a second term (Jerome Powell) who haven’t been confirmed by the Senate yet. Bernanke had never issued loans, had never evaluated balance sheets, and probably did not believe it was a macro useful thing to do.