Activist investor Whitworth dies

In the Margins

Activist investor Whitworth dies

September 30, 2016

By Bloomberg

Ralph Whitworth, an activist investor who forced leadership changes at IBM, Home Depot and other U.S. corporations with a hands-on approach he honed working with T. Boone Pickens, has died. He was 60. Read the original story from Bloomberg.

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