by Scott Wapner
Target, 37, 38–39, 70, 90, 176
Tartol, John, 82
Tattinger family, 113
tender offers, 106, 108, 118
Tepper, David, 164
Tessel, Patrick & Company, 117
Test-Aankoop Belgian nonprofit, 19
Texaco, 126
Texas Air Corporation, 124
Third Point LLC, 88, 89, 91, 93, 94, 130
major positions of, 96
13D Monitor, 2
13G disclosure form, 88, 91
Thompson, Scott, 94–95
Tilson, Whitney, 25, 166, 176
Time Warner, 127–128
Tim Horton’s doughnut chain, 36
Tishman-Speyer, 29
Titans of Takeover, The (Slater), 120
Trans World Airlines (TWA), 123–125
Trek Alliance, 14
Trinity Industries, 104, 108
Trump, Donald J., 192–193
Tupperware, 44
Turing Pharmaceuticals, 172
Turner, Mary Ann, 146
Twitter, 158, 172
Tylenol tampering case, 6
Ubben, Jeffrey, 176
Ullman, Mike, 39, 40
USA Today, 162, 178
US Attorney’s Office, 167, 180
US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 14
Valeant pharmaceutical company, 168–176, 178
Ackman selling entire stake of, 210
stock prices of, 165, 169, 171, 172, 174, 175, 179, 181, 182, 193, 210
ValueAct investment firm, 176
Value Investing Conference, 64
Vanity Fair, 91
Vemma distributor, 181
Venezuela, 163
Villaraigosa, Antonio, 148
Wall Street Journal, 26, 94, 96, 100, 166, 175, 206
Walsh, Des, 18, 57, 58, 59–60, 61, 96, 97, 98, 164, 178, 192, 207
Walt Disney International, 49, 50–51
Walton, William L., 63
Wang, Henry, 196
Watergate scandal, 119
Wells Fargo, 27
Wendy’s International, 36, 37
Wexler & Wexler, 145
“What’s All the Buzz About?” (Markey et al.), 141
White, Mary Jo, 151, 180
“Who Bleeds When the Wolves Bite? A Flesh and Blood Perspective on Hedge Fund Activism and Our Strange Corporate Governance System” (Strine), 2–3
Wilson, Harry, 95
Wolf, Michael, 95
work stoppages, 124
WorldCom, 62, 114
World Series of Poker Main Event, 69
Yahoo, 1, 92–96, 128
board seats of, 94, 95
Yale Law Journal, 2
Yang, Jerry, 93–94
Zell, Sam, 29
Ziff Brothers Investments, 29
Zoetis company, 209
Scott Wapner is the host of the Halftime Report, which airs every weekday on CNBC. Known industry-wide as an expert in the area of activism and markets, Wapner is in regular contact with all the personalities in this book. Wapner has also reported several documentaries for the network, including, Hotel: Behind Closed Doors at Marriott, and One Nation, Overweight, for which he received an award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers as well as a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He lives in New Jersey.
PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.
I.F. STONE, proprietor of I. F. Stone’s Weekly, combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published The Trial of Socrates, which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.
BENJAMIN C. BRADLEE was for nearly thirty years the charismatic editorial leader of The Washington Post. It was Ben who gave the Post the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.
ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN, the chief executive of Random House for more than a quarter century, guided one of the nation’s premier publishing houses. Bob was personally responsible for many books of political dissent and argument that challenged tyranny around the globe. He is also the founder and longtime chair of Human Rights Watch, one of the most respected human rights organizations in the world.
For fifty years, the banner of Public Affairs Press was carried by its owner Morris B. Schnapper, who published Gandhi, Nasser, Toynbee, Truman, and about 1,500 other authors. In 1983, Schnapper was described by The Washington Post as “a redoubtable gadfly.” His legacy will endure in the books to come.
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