{"id":927129,"date":"2025-05-01T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=927129"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:42:59","slug":"elliotts-ai-target-is-an-omen-to-stagnant-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/01\/elliotts-ai-target-is-an-omen-to-stagnant-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott\u2019s AI Target Is an Omen to Stagnant Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg Opinion) &#8212; Two of the best-known shareholder activists \u2014 Elliott Investment Management and Cevian Capital \u2014 are targeting companies with complex structures and second-rate governance. But even soft targets can be hard work. <\/p>\n<p>The art of activism is to find a company that\u2019s lost its way but has a good business at its core. The stock\u2019s weak valuation may be a symptom of poor operating performance, which is in turn explained by the challenges of managing a conglomerate structure. Idiosyncratic governance is often a major concurrent factor. The board sets strategy, after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg Opinion) &#8212; Two of the best-known shareholder activists \u2014 Elliott Investment Management and Cevian Capital \u2014 are targeting companies with complex structures and second-rate governance. But even soft targets can be hard work. The art of activism is to find a company that\u2019s lost its way but has a good business at its core. The stock\u2019s weak valuation may be a symptom of poor operating performance, which is in turn explained by the challenges of managing a conglomerate structure. Idiosyncratic governance is often a major concurrent factor. The board sets strategy, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}