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Author GarcĂ­a, Matt, author

Title Eli and the octopus : the CEO who tried to reform one of the world's most notorious corporations / Matt Garcia
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023

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Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 Talmid -- 2 An Honest Business -- 3 Pyramids -- 4 Shadows -- 5 Israelite -- 6 Half a Picture -- 7 United, We Fall -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary "Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical business. Then he died by suicide. How did it all go wrong? Matt Garcia traces Black's own descent into corruption and despair-the unraveling, and the deliberate forgetting, of one of America's most enigmatic business leaders"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Black, Eli M., 1921-1975.
United Fruit Company.
SUBJECT United Fruit Company fast
Subject Jewish businesspeople -- United States -- Biography
Chief executive officers -- United States -- Biography
Business ethics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business
Business ethics
Chief executive officers
Jewish businesspeople
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674292932
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9780674292925
0674292928