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5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2022 Edition (5 Books)
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5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2022 Edition (5 Books)

by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Joan C. Williams, Marcus Buckingham, Frances X. Frei
May 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
1152 pages
27h 4m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

by Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine

IN THE FALL OF 2014, the hedge fund activist and Allergan shareholder Bill Ackman became increasingly frustrated with Allergan’s board of directors. In a letter to the board, he took the directors to task for their failure to do (in his words) “what you are paid $400,000 per year to do on behalf of the Company’s owners.” The board’s alleged failure: refusing to negotiate with Valeant Pharmaceuticals about its unsolicited bid to take over Allergan—a bid that Ackman himself had helped engineer in a novel alliance between a hedge fund and a would-be acquirer. In presentations promoting the deal, Ackman praised Valeant for its shareholder-friendly capital allocation, ...

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ISBN: 9781647824402