Attention C.E.O.’s of America: Do not ignore him

By William D. Cohan

Around Wall Street, smart people have learned two things in the last decade. One, pray you never get a letter from Jesse Cohn. Two, you ignore Cohn at your own peril. For those of you who have not heard of him, Cohn is the badass Elliott Management activist-hedge-fund manager who has built an impressive record of getting his way with corporate boards that may at first underestimate him or fail to act on his “suggestions” on how to improve the companies they oversee.

He also has been known to help convince boards of directors to defenestrate the C.E.O.’s that READ ON