Activist investor Whitworth dies

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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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