Icarus in the Boardroom : The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From.
David. Skeel
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (261 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- One: Jay Cooke and the Birth of America's First Large-Scale Corporations -- Two: The Gilded Age and the Crisis of Competition -- Three: Icarus Meets the New Deal -- Four: " I Want to Be Like Mike": LBOs and the New Corporate Governance -- Five: Enron,WorldCom, and the Transformation of Icarus -- Six: " The Most Sweeping Securities Law Reforms since the New Deal" -- Seven: "We Have Met the Corporation and It Is Us" -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.. - Americans have always loved risktakers. Like the Icarus of ancient Greek lore, however, even the most talented entrepreneurs can overstep their bounds. All too often, the very qualities that make Icaran executives special-- self-confidence, visionary insight, and extreme competitiveness--spur them to take misguided and even illegal chances. The Icaran failure of an ordinary entrepreneur isn't headline news. But put Icarus in the corporate boardroom and, as David Skeel vividly demonstrates, the ripple effects can be profound. Today's business environment poses unprecedented perils for the average American as for the first time ever, more than half of Americans now own stock. Identifying the problems of the past, Skeel offers a strikingly new diagnosis of the fundamental flaws in corporate America today, and of what can be done to fix them.
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| ISBN | 9780195346596
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