# Prof. Yakov Amihud on the impact of activist investors

1 Faculty News July 24, 2014 ![Fortune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031172.jpg?itok=61CxYB-R)>

Excerpt from [Fortune](http://fortune.com/2014/07/24/follow-an-activist-into-a-stock/) -- "'It is hard to say, based on the results, whether the activist investor is doing anything beneficial for the company or whether the activist investor is just a good stock picker,' says [Yakov Amihud](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/yakov-amihud), a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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