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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) Next, they use the financial press and blogs to spread their message to the institutional investors. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.