Think tank roundup: three cities, seven topics

At think tanks in late September and early October – in Silicon Valley, New York and Toronto – nearly 200 investor relations officers met to network and learn from each other. Distilled from many hours of discussion, here we present some of their insights, along with comments from third-party experts at the events. Advanced course in shareholder activism Activism has been on think tank agendas for a decade but this was the first year that every table of IROs had at least one attendee