The hedge funds acted aggressively when it was rumoured that Cadbury might be taken over from having 5% of ownership to almost a third of its shares, which they were willing to sell for a 20p profit per share. Discuss the role of hedge funds in destabilizing ownership of public traded family firms. Would it be better to regulate the ownership of hedge funds in public traded companies, forcing them to be longer term oriented

case: The Chocolate factory (harvard case study) Morten Bennedsen, Deborah Cadbury