What Activist Investors Can Teach Biotech Companies

To improve the long-term value of biopharmaceutical companies, management should learn to think more like activist investors, according to a new report from EY. The report argues that capital allocation and strategic decision-making could benefit from company leaders setting aside their assumptions and challenging themselves by thinking more like outsiders. We spoke to Jeff Greene, Global Life Sciences Transaction Advisory Services Leader for EY, about the report, what industry executives could learn from activists, and whether shareholder activists indeed have a track record worth emulating.