Icarus in the boardroom [electronic resource] : the fundamental flaws in corporate America and where they came from / David Skeel.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Law and current events mastersPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: viii, 250 p. ; 22 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.0973 22
LOC classification:
  • HD2785 .S437 2005eb
Online resources:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234) and index.

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."

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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