An activist investor on challenging the status quo | Bill Ackman

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Bill Ackman has made billions of dollars — and a name for himself — as an activist investor, buying up stock to push for change at companies. In this wide-ranging conversation with author and business ethics professor Alison Taylor, Ackman discusses how he's bringing his activism into the social and political spheres — and shares his thoughts on free speech, his notoriously long posts on X, the conversation around Harvard and DEI and more.

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0:17.0	Bill Ackman has made billions of dollars and a name for himself as an activist investor.
0:22.8	What that means is after buying up a company's stock,
0:25.6	Ackman and his fund use that ownership
0:27.9	to push for change inside the companies.
0:30.6	Examples include Wendy's, Canadian Pacific Railway, Target Corp, and more.
0:36.0	In this conversation with author and NYU business ethics professor,
0:40.0	Allison Taylor from TED 2024,
0:42.0	Ackman shares how he's trying to bring his activism into the
0:46.0	social and political spheres and how he's responding to all the blowback he faces as a result.
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