By Howard Green, Special to Financial Post, Ottawa Citizen; September 14, 2018
Book excerpt: The late Hunter Harrison was ‘kind of lost’ after retiring from Canadian National Railway, then the hedge fund giant run by Bill Ackman came calling with an offer to retool Canadian Pacific that sprung him from his farm-bound purgatory.
In this excerpt from Railroader: The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison, a new book published by Page Two Books that comes out Sept. 18, the long-time railway executive is enticed to join Pershing Square’s proxy battle against Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. after retiring from Canadian National Railway Co.
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