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Icarus in the Boardroom - The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Paperback, New ed)
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Icarus in the Boardroom - The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Law and Current Events Masters
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Americans have always loved risktakers. Like the Icarus of ancient
Greek lore, however, even the most talented entrepreneurs can
overstep their bounds. All too often, the very qualities that make
Icaran executives special-- self-confidence, visionary insight, and
extreme competitiveness--spur them to take misguided and even
illegal chances. The Icaran failure of an ordinary entrepreneur
isn't headline news. But put Icarus in the corporate boardroom and,
as David Skeel vividly demonstrates, the ripple effects can be
profound.
Ever since the first large-scale corporations emerged in the
nineteenth century, their ability to tap huge amounts of capital
and the sheer number of lives they affect has meant that their
executives play for far greater stakes. Excessive and sometimes
fraudulent risks, competition, and the increasing size and
complexity of organizations: these three factors have been at the
heart of every corporate breakdown from 1873, when financial genius
Jay Cooke collapsed, to the corporate scandals of the early 21st
century. Compounding the scandals is an ongoing cat-and-mouse game
between regulators' efforts to police the three factors that lead
to Icarus Effect failures and efforts by corporate America to evade
this regulation in the name of efficiency and flexibility.
These efforts to side-step oversight can rapidly spiral out of
control, setting the stage for the devastating corporate failures
that punctuate American business history. But there is also a
silver lining to the stunning failures: the outrage they provoke
galvanizes public opinion in favor of corporate reform. The most
important American business regulation has always been enacted in
response to amajor breakdown in corporate America.
Today's business environment poses unprecedented perils for the
average American as for the first time ever, more than half of
Americans now own stock. Identifying the problems of the past,
Skeel offers a strikingly new diagnosis of the fundamental flaws in
corporate America today, and of what can be done to fix them.
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