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Icarus in the boardroom : the fundamental flaws in corporate America and where they came from / David Skeel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skeel, David A., 1961-
- Series:
- Law and current events masters.
- Law and current events masters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corporate governance--United States.
- Corporate governance.
- Directors of corporations--United States.
- Directors of corporations.
- Industrial management--United States.
- Industrial management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 1. Jay Cooke and the Birth of America's First Large Scale Corporation2. The Gilded Age and the Crisis of Competition3. Icarus Meets the New Deal4. I Want to Be Like Mike: LBO's and the New Corporate Governance5. Enron, WorldCom and the Transformation of Icarus6. ""The Most Sweeping Securities Law Reforms Since the New Deal""7. ""We Have Met the Corporation and it is Us""
- Contents:
- Jay Cooke and the birth of America's first large scale corporations
- The gilded age and the crisis of competition
- Icarus meets the New Deal
- "I want to be like Mike" : LBO's and the new corporate governance
- Enron, WorldCom, and the transformation of Icarus
- "The most sweeping securities law reforms since the New Deal"
- "We have met the corporation and it is us."
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029180-X
- 1-280-42819-8
- 0-19-534659-9
- 1-4237-5826-9
- 1-60256-514-7
- OCLC:
- 191038432
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