PBS covers proxy season
You know that you’re into something sexy when PBS comes knocking.
A week ago, PBS’s Nightly Business Report presented a quick snapshot of this year’s proxy season and some of its key players.
“Trouble at the Top: Proxy Fights 2008″ (click here) includes comments from AFSCME’s Richard Ferlauto.
“Roundtable Review of Corporate Governance” (click here), “Trouble at the Top: Shareholder Rights” with comments from Nell Minow (click here), and “One on One with Carl Icahn” (click here) serve as quick primary reads as well.
The money quote from the Icahn interview…
“I can go into any company, almost any company and I’m not a manager and I say this at the risk of being immodest, and I can knock 30 percent off costs because there’s so much waste and the CEO is out there playing golf. And I used to say the only time you get him off the golf course is when I file a 13-D.”
