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File Size: 1251 KB

Print Length: 265 pages

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Publisher: FT Publishing International; 1 edition (July 4, 2016)

Publication Date: July 4, 2016

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B01H3L2J48

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Walker's book could serve as an introductory textbook to activist investing, but unlike most textbooks, the writing isn't drab. For those of us unfamiliar with what activist investment is (like I was), the book defines the jargon ("proxy battles," which don't involve computers, appears often), processes, and big names associated with this form of investment before delving into the case studies. Barbarians is an eye-opener (and in most cases, a maddening one): so many of the same names in activist investment pop up in the boardrooms of all these big companies we take for granted and usually end up in struggles for control--and that many of these struggles boil down to popularity contests swung by high stakes spending and public relations with the voting shareholders. (Companies and activists build websites for these competitions!)Specific reasons why I enjoyed Barbarians in the Boardroom: it provides the blood and guts that I missed from my local mainstream media coverage in Orlando, FL over why an activist investor ended up with full control of the Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, LongHorn, etc.) boardroom; how an activist helped influence Walgreens toward a corporate inversion with UK's Boots before public outcry derailed that movement; and how Allergan and Microsoft thwarted activist investment from taking complete control of the boardroom. And if you pay attention to the business of sports, Walker's book indirectly addresses why Jeff Gordon's #24 NASCAR sponsorship changed from DuPont to Axalta and why Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League saw their shirt sponsorship go from Autonomy to Aurasma to HP in just a few successive years.

This is a survey of investor activism in the early 21st century that will form an essential part of the history of this ever-changing, ever-dynamic stock market phenomenon. It should be essential reading by communists and other anti-marketeers so they can understand one of capitalism's classic points of conflict. Walker gives the book an academic flavour by such devices as starting chapters with a review of what has been said and a preview of what is to come. He assumes no knowledge, so old hands might find themselves skipping the occasional section. However, the textbook approach gives Walker an objective standpoint of the inherent conflict between the activists' greed and their moral cloak of rooting out laziness, corruption and under-utilization of assets in the search for the most efficient use of capital. All but one of the case studies are American and the other is British, which may reflect the current state of play: the level of activity has fluctuated from one side of the Atlantic to the other over the past 60 years. Walker nods to the historical background sufficiently to hark back to the Dutch East India Company but, although he finds space for the late Sir Jimmy Goldsmith, there is no mention of the other two now-dead UK Jameses - Slater and Hanson - who were aggressive enough to earn the pejorative asset-stripper epithet in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Monty Python even managed a sketch about "Slater Nazi"! For cultural or legal reasons, activists have since been regarded with suspicion in Britain, while they flourish on Wall Street. It is also significant that activism is rare in the rest of the world, a reflection of how illiquid and rule-bound other countries' stock markets tend to be. It would have been helpful to have had some discussion of other countries activism, or lack of it. But, after reading Barbarians in the Boardroom, you will be well placed to make up yourown mind whether it is a good or bad thing that investor activism is almost exclusively an Anglo-American phenomenon.

This is a great read for anyone who wants to climb into the mind of the Activist Investor to better understand their motivations, and the strategies that led to their success or doomed them to failure. From Darden Restaurants to HP, the book takes you through the most famous scandals and stories in the boardrooms of corporate America and profiles legendary Activist Investors like Carl Icahn. Through the use of these case stories, the book both educates and entertains the reader. Whether you're new to the world of corporate governance and need a primer on activism in the boardroom, or are a seasoned expert who enjoys a walk down memory lane, I highly recommend this book.

Barbarians in the Boardroom is a well written concise journey through very interesting examples of activist investing. Mr. Walker does a great job of leading the reader through a handful of interesting vignettes regarding a subject that affects all of us yet most of us are not well educated in. Walker’s clear writing and thorough introduction to the players we will meet through this book makes the intricate subject of activist investing easy for the reader to understand. We may be familiar with the companies discussed as well as some of their boardroom battles, however the behind the scenes information provided by Walker is what really shines in this book. The author drops us in the middle of battles throughout the corporate world giving us a front row seat to the many ways investors position themselves to challenge corporations and how corporations succeed or fail against the investors. You will come away from this feeling plainly a lot smarter than you did before you started reading it, with a view of how investors and companies deal with the rather new phenomenon of activist investing.

Walker provides a rich, colorful narrative to the inner workings and backroom dealings of activist investors and the boards they target. His detailed recountings of proxy fights carefully balance the explanations needed for those unaccustomed to the world of corporate governance with the blow-by-blow craved by those more well-versed. Well beyond the headlines, Walker's narratives often set up and are complemented by reprinted articles of the day, often illuminating the tactics employed by each side of the fight. So if you want to know which activist loves Springsteen and which one salts his pasta water, this page-turner is for you.

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