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Eli and the octopus : the CEO who tried to reform one of the world's most notorious corporations / Matt Garcia.
LIBRA HF3023.B53 G37 2023
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- García, Matt, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish businesspeople--United States--Biography.
- Chief executive officers--United States--Biography.
- Business ethics.
- Chief executive officers.
- Jewish businesspeople.
- Black, Eli M., 1921-1975.
- United Fruit Company.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical business. Then he died by suicide. How did it all go wrong? Matt Garcia traces Black's own descent into corruption and despair-the unraveling, and the deliberate forgetting, of one of America's most enigmatic business leaders"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674980808
- 0674980808
- OCLC:
- 1346152095
- Publisher Number:
- 99993855755
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