You can read all about how good activist investors are in the Economist's cover story a few months back: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21642169-why-acti

You can read all about how good activist investors are in the Economist's cover story a few months back: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21642169-why-activist-investors-are-good-public-company-capitalisms-unlikely-heroes http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21642169-why-activist-... ;)