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Activists, Shmactivists

Barron's Streetwise

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Putting Salt in the Pasta Water

A company called Starboard Value waged an activist campaign in 2014 against a company called Darden, which is the owner of the Olive Garden. They put out a big slide deck hundreds of pages and they had all kinds of recommendations on how to run the business better. Jackson: You probably don't need pasta water level advice from Wall Street. I'm a non-sulter. Where do you come down? Pinch a salt.

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