People Pill

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Definition of 'People Pill'

A defensive strategy to ward off a hostile takeover. Management threatens that, in the event of a takeover, the entire management team will resign.
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Investopedia explains 'People Pill'

This is a variation of the poison pill defense.
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'People Pill'

  • Mergers And Acquisitions: Understanding Takeovers

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/01/050901.asp
    ... People Pill Here, management threatens that in the event of a takeover,
    the management team will resign at the same time en masse. ...
  • Transcept Pharmaceuticals Bulls Get Rude Awakening

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2011/Transcept-Pharmaceuticals-Bulls-Get-Rude-Awakening-TSPT-SNY-TEVA-NBIX-GSK-ARNA-ALXA0715.aspx
    ... is targeted for people who awaken in the middle of the night and have difficulty
    getting back to sleep - the first so-called middle-of-the-night insomnia pill. ...
  • Declaring Bankruptcy Is No Easy Out

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/08/safe-from-bankruptcy.asp
    ... Going too close to the edge and surviving the long road back to financial stability
    is usually a bitter enough pill to turn people off obvious consumer debt ...
  • What Caused The Great Depression?

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/cause-of-great-depression.asp
    ... Although some people, such as Milton Friedman have rightly suggested that the ... By
    attempting to immediately recover without swallowing the bitter pill of two ...
  • War's Influence On Wall Street

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/072903.asp
    ... However, this approach can prove to be a suicide pill because, even if it is ... dawn
    raid in war, the dawn raid of the corporate world makes the people you just ...
  • Investing In The Healthcare Sector

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/08/investing-in-healthcare.asp
    ... the uninsured; cost controls; consumerism. Take One Pill and ... the number of people
    affected; the number of compounds currently available; the process of discovery ...
  • The Greatest Currency Trades Ever Made

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/08/greatest-currency-trades.asp
    ... Britain did lose money because of Soros and he did force the country to swallow
    the bitter pill of withdrawing from the ERM, but many people also see these ...
  • More Yo-Yo'ing At Weight Watchers

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2011/More-Yo-Yoing-At-Weight-Watchers-WTW-HLF-USNA-NUS-MED-NTRI-VVUS-NSRGY-MED-ARNA1109.aspx
    ... health insurance companies and large corporations to bring those programs to more
    people. ... steady program, and would rather wait and hope for a pill from Vivus ...
  • Weight Watchers – Yo-Yo Performance And Debt Gluttony

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2012/Weight-Watchers--Yo-Yo-Performance-And-Debt-Gluttony-WTW-NTRI-MED-ABT0216.aspx
    ... that a diet or weight management company would see erratic attendance - people try
    it ... all seen so far, the answer would seem to be "no." Sure, a pill, shake or ...
  • Evaluating Pharmaceutical Companies

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/06/drugmarket.asp
    ... if you do want to get in on the next little blue pill there is ... the consumers via
    a joint venture between Warner-Lambert, the company whose people developed it ...

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