Consider it confirmed: Carl Icahn wants to stick ten new men on Yahoo's board of directors. Icahn's even gone so far as to provide their names and biographies, and the men constitute a rather interesting collection.
About 2,500 words' worth of information sums the group up in Icahn's letter to Yahoo's chairman, but we'll try to be more concise. To start with, there's Icahn himself - billionaire, corporate raider, and so on. His background's come up more than once in the past week.
Lucian A. Bebchuk heads up an alphabetical list of the others. Bebchuk appears to be extremely well-educated, holding degrees from Harvard Law School and the Harvard Economics Department. He's written a number of articles for influential publications, and was placed on a list of the "100 Most Influential People In Finance" by
The ten are smart, successful men, obviously, having a lot to do with Harvard and perhaps fewer connections to search and advertising. For all sorts of reasons, it'll be interesting to see if Icahn can get them inside Yahoo.
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