# Prof. April Klein on DuPont and activist investor Nelson Peltz

1 Faculty News April 18, 2015 ![News Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033153.jpg?itok=aCaZBmHm)>

Excerpt from [The News Journal](http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2015/04/17/dupont-plan-key-peltzs-power/25959681/) -- "[April Klein](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/april-klein), an accounting professor at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, agreed that Peltz's plans for DuPont has commanded institutional investor's attention. 'Once other investors see a hedge fund has a plan to increase shareholder value, they begin to support that hedge fund,' Klein said. 'It's really that simple.'"

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