Masters of the universe : winning strategies of America's greatest deal makers / Daniel J. Kadlec.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kadlec, Daniel J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Businessmen--United States--Biography.

Businessmen.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 282 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperBusiness, 1999.

Summary:

The stories are as fresh as today's headlines ... Citicorp and Travelers Group . . . NationsBank and BankAmerica ... Cendant ...

Here, for the first time, you can meet the men and the minds that have ignited the greatest decade of deal making in the history of business.

In the 1980s Tom Wolfe coined the term "masters of the universe" for Wall Street's elite. Then deal makers were pioneering the leveraged buyouts and corporate raiding techniques of that colorful era. Times have changed, tactics have changed. But today merger and acquisition activity goes on at a rate far greater than anything seen in the eighties. To date the nineties have produced an incredible $8 trillion in mergers and acquisitions worldwide, compared to only $2.4 trillion in the so-called decade of greed.

Wolfe's phrase is even more apt today for the deal makers you are about to meet in this book.

These are strong, smart, visionary men of business who see what others do not, who act as others cannot, who have the will, the drive, the ambition to make their deals and drive their companies to heights that the rest of us can only envy--and learn from.

Nine of today's most powerful masters of the universe are profiled in these pages by Time magazine's Wall Street columnist Daniel J. Kadlec. Each of these top guns sat for extensive interviews, as Kadlec quizzed them about their greatest deal and the strategies they used to pull it off: the critical elements they saw that made the deal worth doing, and, ultimately, how they got the deal done.

Superbly written, always engrossing, and filled with the drama of great events and sensational deeds, Masters of the Universe will open your eyes to the brave new world of deal makers and deal making.

Contents:

1 Deal Makers I

2 Raider with a Pulse / Carl Icahn II

3 Southern Dynamite / Hugh Mccoll 39

4 Another Year, Another Office / Sandy Weill 71

5 Treasurer for Hire / Stephen Bollenbach 101

6 Other People's Moeny / Gary Wilson 133

7 Master of the LBO / Ted Forstmann 161

8 LBOs with a Twist / Joe Rice 191

9 Agent of Change / Henry Silverman 219

10 The Vision Thing / Summner Redstone 247.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

088730933X

OCLC:

40408897