In early December Barnes & Noble Education announced they would hire a financial advisor to “review strategic opportunities” — e.g. help try to sell the company — following yet another disappointing quarter, and claiming “a number of unsolicited inquiries” in rescuing the company from the management that has run it down. On Wednesday, with the stock trading at deep lows over the past few 10 days in the wake of broad campus closures, BNED adopted a poison pill (aka “shareholder rights plan”), to make sure no one actually buys the stock thinking they could gain control of the company. BNED said […]