Icarus in the boardroom the fundamental flaws in corporate America and where they came from /

Icarus in the boardroom the fundamental flaws in corporate America and where they came from / David Skeel.

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Main Author: Skeel, David A., 1961-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Law and current events masters.
Subjects:
Corporate governance > United States.
Directors of corporations > United States.
Industrial management > United States.
Electronic books.
Table of 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."

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