Icarus in the boardroom the fundamental flaws in corporate America and where they came from - Skeel, David A., 1961- (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005)
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."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234) and index.
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Keywords: Corporate governance -- United States; Directors of corporations -- United States; Industrial management -- United States; Electronic books