# Why bother keeping shareholders happy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-bother-keeping-shareholders-happy/714441>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 7, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-bother-keeping-shareholders-happy/714441 "2015-03-07T14:38:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-bother-keeping-shareholders-happy/714441/41 "2015-03-11T19:12:54Z")

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> [@friedo](#):
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> [Here](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/nyregion/city-comptroller-reaches-deals-with-5-companies-on-giving-shareholders-say-on-directors.html?ref=nyregion) is a timely article about shareholder activism to gain more control over corporate boards.

I don’t have time to look it up, but I think that this radical proposal of letting people with significant stakes in a company actually nominate directors has been put forth before - with no success. Not surprising - such anarchistic ideas like two candidates for an office have never been successful. Some awful day there might even be three. My lord! _fans himself to avoid fainting from the shock_

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