orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . july 2016 blue harbour group industry investment management headquarters greenwich connecticut united states area served worldwide investors ; north america investments key people clifton cliff robbins founder and ceo number of employees 18 website http www.bhgrp.com blue harbour group is an american multibillion dollar investment firm that manages capital for pension funds endowments sovereign wealth funds labor unions and other institutional investors . 1 based in greenwich connecticut 1 blue harbour is known as a friendly activist investor . 2 it has never engaged in a proxy contest waged a media campaign or sued a company to influence its direction . 3 contents 1 history 2 company 3 investment strategy 4 awards 4.1 blue harbour strategic value partners 4.2 blue harbour active ownership partners 5 references history edit blue harbour group was founded in 2004 by clifton robbins 4 also known as cliff robbins a former partner at private equity giants kkr 5 and general atlantic . 6 company edit as of may 2014 the firm managed an estimated 3 billion in capital 6 which it mainly invests from two funds the long short blue harbour strategic value partners and the long only blue harbour active ownership partners . 7 blue harbour s investment team includes its ceo cliff robbins 5 and managing directors peter carlin 8 robb lemasters 9 todd marcy 10 david silverman 11 lauren taylor wolfe 12 and jason wathen . 13 investment strategy edit blue harbour takes sizable 14 ownership stakes in publicly traded companies whose management teams are open to new ideas for increasing in value . 15 the firm then works collaboratively with them for two to three years . 15 blue harbour focuses on north american 6 undervalued smallcap and midcap companies . 3 awards edit blue harbour strategic value partners edit named one the the 30 hedge funds that crushed wall street in 2013 by business insider . 16 named one of the best 100 hedge funds by barron s in 2013 . 17 listed as one of the top 100 performing large hedge funds for 2012 by bloomberg . 18 blue harbour active ownership partners edit listed as one of the top 50 performing midsize hedge funds for 2013 by bloomberg . 19 references edit a b blue harbour discloses core holdings . institutional investors alpha . retrieved 5 may 2014 . activist hedge funds . value walk . retrieved 5 may 2014 . a b activist fund blue harbour group takes stake in tribune co. . chicago tribune . retrieved 5 may 2014 . clifton robbins . business week . a b blue harbour group . insider monkey . retrieved 5 may 2014 . a b c the morning brief . institutional investor alpha . retrieved 5 may 2014 . blue harbour group is bullish on babcock & wilcox co bwc and reports a 6.0 % stake . insider monkey bwc . retrieved 5 may 2014 . our team . bhgrp . retrieved 5 may 2014 . nielsen to buy arbitron for 1.26 billion . ny times . retrieved 5 may 2014 . brocade turns to buyback after blue harbour arrives . wsj . retrieved 5 may 2014 . look beyond the annual meeting . directors and boards . retrieved 5 may 2014 . at activist s urging chico s buys back stock . investors shrug . wsj chico . retrieved 5 may 2014 . jason wathen . linked in . retrieved 5 may 2014 . an activist investor minus the fangs . wsj fangs . retrieved 5 may 2014 . a b chico s luring activist seen as lbo target real m & a . bloomberg . retrieved 5 may 2014 . the 30 hedge funds that crushed wall street in 2013 . business insider 30 . retrieved 5 may 2014 . best 100 hedge funds . barrons . retrieved 5 may 2014 . the 100 top performing large hedge funds . bloomberg . top 50 midsize hedge funds . bloomberg . retrieved 5 may 2014 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title blue harbour group & oldid 727974150 categories investment companies of the united statesfinancial services companies of the united statescompanies based in fairfield county connecticuthidden categories orphaned articles from july 2016all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 july 2016 at 08 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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