Greed and Corporate Failure
eBook - PDF

Greed and Corporate Failure

The Lessons from Recent Disasters

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Greed and Corporate Failure

The Lessons from Recent Disasters

About this book

This book is for anyone who wants to know what truly lies behind the scandals and disasters of global business which marred the first few years of the 21st century. It examines why companies fail, finding the reasons few, yet all too common. It also explores what the prudent investor, board member or manager should be alert to but often is not.

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Information

Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781403986368
eBook ISBN
9780230502758
Subtopic
Finance

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. GREED AND CORPORATE FAILURE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chapter 1 Introduction
  8. Chapter 2 Barings and Allied Irish Bank: Lessons Ignored
  9. Chapter 3 Enron: Paper Profits, Cash Losses
  10. Chapter 4 WorldCom: Disconnected
  11. Chapter 5 Tyco: Greed, Hubris and the $6000 Shower Curtain
  12. Chapter 6 Marconi: Establishment to Wunderkind to Basketcase
  13. Chapter 7 Swissair: Crashed and Burned
  14. Chapter 8 Royal Ahold: Shopped Till He Dropped
  15. Chapter 9 Parmalat: Milking the System
  16. Chapter 10 Conclusions
  17. Epilogue
  18. List of Abbreviations
  19. Glossary
  20. Index