| Description |
iv, 210 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Promises, promises Home-Stake Production Co -- Boys will be boys -- 7.Look what we made -- A fitting start to the 21st century AOL Time Warner -- Breaking up is hard to do Royal Bank of Scotland and ABN AMRO -- Shooting the messenger Bank of Scotland and Halifax -- To infinity, and beyond USWeb -- When mergers go bad -- 8.Almost revolutionary -- Enhanced securitization AIG -- The money machine Long Term Capital Management -- Paying the price Letsbuyit.com -- The next level Digiscents -- Bigger than the internet Segway -- The invisible hand |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Bad behaviour -- Stuff happens -- Can we build to last? -- A word on classification -- 2.Too good to fail -- Isn't that meant to be £50million? / Bernard Madoff -- The meanest SOBs WorldCom -- Ask why Enron -- The numbers game -- 3.It worked last time -- Living above your means Northern Rock -- Breaking the Queen's bank Barings Bank -- Easy money The Mississippi Company -- Glory chasers Leeds United plc -- Upselling the dream -- 4.Modern Rambos -- Chainsaw Al Dunlap vs Sunbeam -- These people Bear Stearns -- Mr Crapner Ratners -- The man who always paid Clarence Hatry -- Heads they win, tails we lose -- 5.All together now -- Frozen assets Iceland -- An undertaking of great advantage The South Sea Company -- Astounding and momentous failure General Motors -- The smell of dead animals Albania -- MRDA -- 6.Greater fools -- Feeding risk Lehman Brothers -- Confidence at its height The Tulip Mania -- The greatest financier / Charles Ponzi -- |
| Summary |
There will always be business failures but when you look at who fails, when and how, it's often shocking how far and how fast great companies can fall. Fit to Bust is an eye-opening investigation of the causes of that failure - whether it's a global financial crisis or a single disastrous decision |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Business failures -- Case studies.
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Business failures.
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Management -- Case studies.
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Management.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| LC no. |
2010048641 |
| ISBN |
074946013X (paperback) |
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9780749460136 (paperback) |
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(E-ISBN) |
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