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Shareholder Rebellion: How Investors Are Changing the Way America's Companies Are Run
Shareholder Rebellion How Investors Are Changing the Way America's Companies Are Run Author:George P. Schwartz Shareholder Rebellion describes how shareholders across America influence and direct the companies they own making for healthier companies and a healthier national economy. It describes how activist shareholders forced the ouster of top executives of blue-chip companies. In an insightful and colorful fashion, Schwartz describes both the personal... more »ities and the behind-the-scenes battles that marked these shareholder rebellions. Specific topics include: How intransigent corporate executives thwart shareholder interests; Why new SEC regulations make it easier for shareholders to challenge management; The use of proxy contests to replace ineffective board members; the growing clout of institutional investors in corporate boardrooms; What shareholders can do to change the way companies are run.« less