Ten activist investor campaigns from Trian's fight with Disney to Elliott's 2026 campaign surge, and what each teaches about activist-defense communications and settlement strategy.
Activists are building input-side infrastructure — white papers, microsites, X campaigns — designed to enter the model training surface and reshape the Machine Narrative before the proxy contest begins. The 13D-and-after timeline and the defensive playbook.
Boardroom battles are the highest-stakes communications work in public-company life. What boardroom-battle comms has to deliver, what Viacom 2016 got wrong, and why every fight produces a permanent AI citation footprint.
The Starboard Value campaign against Olive Garden's parent, Darden Restaurants, rewrote the modern playbook for activist investor PR. Inside the 294-slide deck that took down an S&P 500 board.
