Activist investing

Cracker Barrel is ubiquitous on the American landscape, with each roadside location featuring a restaurant and a gift shop. Now, one activist investor, with a proven track record in the restaurant business, is accusing management of hiding something.

Here's a paradox: Activist investing had been booming during the past few years, and now the market has collapsed, driven in large part by incompetent management and poor corporate governance. So now that the stuff has hit the fan, you might think that activists would be entering a golden age,...

As the co-founder of The Corporate Library, Nell Minow has done more to raise awareness about shareholder rights than just about anyone in history. BusinessWeek has called her "the queen of good corporate governance" and she's a former president of Institutional Shareholder Services. I recently...

In a column (subscription required) in Barron's, Ken Squire argues that we are entering a golden age for activist investing as legislators get serious about shareholder rights for the first time in history: "This enthusiasm for shareholder rights, coupled with distressed equity markets, means the...