What happened with activist shareholder? Motley Fool asks; Cerner answers


A Friday podcast from The Motley Fool questioned how an activist investment fund — owning just 1.2 percent of Cerner Corp. stock — managed to shape strategic direction.

But a Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) official said that the health IT company and Starboard Value LP were "aligned on all fronts" and that the conversations were "not adversarial."

In the podcast from the financial services company, host Chris Hill and an analyst try to unpack Cerner's Tuesday announcement of an agreement with Starboard…

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