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Revolt in The Boardroom: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America
by Alan, Murray
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060882476
- ISBN 13
- 9780060882471
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Collins, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings. Dust jacket in very good condition. Has been price clipped and has a small closed tear at top of front cover. * From the book, ""Throughout the 20th century, American corporations were governed by autocratic, almost unaccountable chief executives. Their word was law and the only check on their power was a board of directors composed of their friends and allies.. . . Then, in a stunning reversal, a momentous series of firings deposed the heads of some of the world's best-known companies.. . . [This book] is the first look at the new world of corporate power and the last word on the transformational events of the last two years [2005-2007].""
Synopsis
Count them: Franklin Raines, Michael Eisner, Carly Fiorina, Harry Stonecipher, Hank Greenberg , Morgan Stanley's Phillip Purcell. These chief executives, each running one of the sixty largest companies in America, were each removed against his or her will in the span of the same year. The facts in each case vary. Stonecipher, a short–timer as CEO of Boeing, was fired after a wild workplace fling that began at the company's annual executive retreat. Greenberg, chief executive of the insurance company AIG for almost four decades, was ousted under the pressure from New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer because of an investigation of the company's accounting irregularities. Fiorina and Eisner came under attack from shareholders; Raines was the target of a newly empowered government regulator. But taken together, they signal a tectonic shift in the underpinnings of power in corporate America. The imperial CEO is gone. In its place is a new, and often messy, system of board rule, in which a group of people, many of whom have relatively little experience in business, are holding sway over corporate titans, and in which an array of new interest groups – shareholders, regulators, hedge funds, employees, and labor unions – are learning to successfully flex their muscle. This book would tell the tumultuous inside story of that revolution, examine what caused it, and explore what it means for the future of American business.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000161
- Title
- Revolt in The Boardroom: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America
- Author
- Alan, Murray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060882476
- ISBN 13
- 9780060882471
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Business, Corporate governance -- United States, Boards of directors -- United States, Chief executive officers -- United States.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business; Management & Leadership & Work;
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About Elk Creek Heritage Books
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