Inside Track with Broc: Mary Beth Kissane on Monitoring Activist Activity (6/8/09)

Mary Beth Kissane

Mary Beth Kissane is a Principal of Walek Associates and President of Corporate Perception Research LLC

During this podcast, Mary Beth analyzes how companies should be monitoring shareholder activist activity, including:

How do hedge funds have such a solid activism record?
What should companies do to prepare for an activist attack?
Who within the company owns the "monitoring activists" task?
Who within the company should be dealing with the financial press?
Who is the "financial press" these days? Bloggers included? Social media?

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