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• Title:Greed and corporate failure : the lessons from recent disasters / Stewart Hamilton and Alicia Micklethwait.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hamilton, Stewart.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Micklethwait, Alicia.
  
• Published/Created:Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HD2747 .H36 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Business failures--Case studies.
  Corporations--Finance--Case studies.
  Accounting--Corrupt practices--Case studies.
  
• Description:xvi, 207 p. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1403986363 (cloth)
  9781403986368
  
• Contents:1. Introduction
  2. Barings and Allied Irish Bank : lessons ignored
  3. Enron : paper profits, cash losses
  4. WorldCom : disconnected
  5. Tyco : greed, hubris and the $6000 shower curtain
  6. Marconi : establishment to Wunderkind to basketcase
  7. Swissair : crashed and burned
  8. Royal Ahold : shopped til he dropped
  9. Parmalat : milking the system
  10. Conclusions.