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Elliott Management Forced Change at Two Different Dallas Companies in Five Years. Both Times, it Sold and Left Before Anyone Could Prove the Changes Made Either Company Better.
Elliott Management forced boardroom and strategic change at AT&T in 2019 and at Southwest Airlines in 2024 — two different Dallas-headquartered giants, five years apart. Both times, Elliott sold its stake and left before anyone could prove the changes it demanded actually made either company better.
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IBM Just Showed Off a Chip That Runs Two Instruction Sets at Once. The Company Is 115 Years Old. Most Companies That Old Are Dead.
IBM's new dual-ISA mainframe chip is the same trick it's pulled for 115 years. Sears is the same age and it's dead. The difference isn't ...
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