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Smart move by Marissa. She played politics to get in, won - and then did what is best for Yahoo! for the long-term. A large shareholder activist is merely looki
by loceng 13y ago
Smart move by Marissa. She played politics to get in, won - and then did what is best for Yahoo! for the long-term. A large shareholder activist is merely looking to make fast monetary gains, and doesn't care about long-term projections.
- yuhong 13y agoThe sad thing is that this particular one seems to be almost good, though IMO the long term solution is fixing executive recruiting.
- nazgulnarsil 13y agoOn average shareholder activism is good for share prices. Your assumption seems bad without more info. In particular, the fact that he led the push to hire mayer in the first place means that his net contribution to yahoo is probably positive.
- loceng 13y agoShareholder prices, right. That's one metric, and the wrong one to follow IMHO if you want to innovate and grow. Firing 12,000 people would have been devastating for morale of the company, even if Marissa bought other good talent and companies - and other problems with it too.
- mzarate06 13y agoFiring 12,000 people ... Point taken, but if you're referring to Loeb's firing plan that Mayer supported, the firing would have been towards roughly 2,400 - 3,600 workers, not 12,000. From the article: "... Loeb’s plan was to fire between 20 percent and 30 percent of Yahoo!’s roughly 12,000 workers — an idea Mayer initially supported ..." Edit: yep, I agree it's still a lot, just wanted to point out the difference.
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- loceng 13y agoAh - thanks for pointing that out, my mistake there, though that is still a lot of workers. Up to 1/3rd of your co-workers gone.
- chollida1 13y ago> Firing 12,000 people would have been devastating for morale of the company Yes, especially since that would mean firing every employee of the company:) I can see that being a bad day for moral.... All joking aside, I think your point is pretty solid. Getting rid of a 1/3 of the work force was not going to send a positive message to the rest of the employee's.
- hkmurakami 13y agoHonestly the Meyer hire alone sent the stock price up before she did a single thing as CEO, so this move can also easily be seen as what could have easily been a short term stock price inflation move.