Interview: Jana Partners
In 1986, Barry Rosenstein, then a 27-year-old associate in the mergers and acquisitions department at Merrill Lynch & Co., realized he didn’t want to be an investment banker. Rosenstein, who had received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania just three years earlier, cold-called corporate raider Asher Edelman and managed to talk his way into an interview.
