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Contains the following plays: "As A Man Thinks," by Augustus
Thomas; "The Return of Peter Grimm," by David Belasco; "Romance,"
by Edward Shelton; "The Unchastened Woman," by Louis Kaufman
Anspacher; and "Plots and Playwrights," by Edward Massey.
A widespread misunderstanding concerning leveraged buyouts (LBOs) is the belief that they accomplish little but the ruin of companies and the loss of employment. How else could it be? Until recently, journalists, including much of the business press, have depicted LBO specialists as generally greedy, if not sinister, forces whose activities compound the dislocations of modern American economic and social life. This kind of criticism reached a crescendo in the press and in Congress at the end of the 1980s, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts found itself in the middle of the controversy. Based on interviews with partners of the firm and on unprecedented access to KKR's records, George P. Baker and George David Smith have written a definitive account of how KKR has approached LBOs in a book that will appeal to the specialist and general reader alike. The authors focus on KKR's founding, evolution, and innovations as ways to understand issues in modern American business. In examining KKR as a unique form of enterprise--one that subscribes to a set of alternative perspectives on business and value creation--the book bridges the gap between public perception and academic knowledge of how financial innovation impacts economic life. The firm's approach to leveraged buyouts was an important aspect of the corporate restructuring and governance reforms in the American economy from the mid-1970s through 1990 (the years of what some have called the "leveraged buyout movement"). KKR and other companies fundamentally altered the prevailing perception of the role of debt in the modern American corporation and established an alternative model for organizing and managing corporate enterprises. KKR financed the companies it acquired with high levels of debt, while linking their ownership to management. It then imposed rigorous monitoring by the board of directors over the companies in its portfolio. This combination of factors forced managers to concentrate not on growth but rather on how to achieve value through whatever means was most appropriate to the company's circumstances. The purpose of the leveraged buyout was to realize, or "create," value in companies by reforming their management systems. KKR's approach to restructuring the relationship between owners and managers in a highly leveraged firm rested on a basic principle: Make managers owners by making them invest a significant share of their personal wealth in the enterprises they manage, and they will have stronger incentives to act in the best interests of all shareholders.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
1919. From the Introduction: The Harvard Dramatic Club before the
War brought a pause of two years in its activities, had for some
ten years produced annually as part of its activity three or four
one-act plays. The four new selections from its repertory of
one-act pieces included in this volume can hardly require any
special introduction, for the history of the Harvard Dramatic Club
was given in the prefatory matter to the volume of one-act plays of
this Club published in 1918, and the reception by the public of the
four plays therein contained shows that they were welcome to
readers and amateur acting organizations. The plays here printed
have not been chosen as the only remaining four sufficiently
worthy, for there are others any editor would be glad to see
published in a volume like this, but as a group which perhaps gives
the volume best variety and balance. The editor's hope is that they
may please their public as well as did the first group of Harvard
Dramatic Club plays. Contains: The Harbor of Lost Ships, by Louise
Whitefield Bray; Garafelia's Husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The
Scales and the Sword, by Farnham Bishop; and The Four-Flushers, by
Cleves Kinkead.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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Justice (Paperback)
John, Sir Galsworthy; Introduction by George P. Baker
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R562
Discovery Miles 5 620
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THIS 94 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Representative
Plays by John Galsworthy, by John Galsworthy. To purchase the
entire book, please order ISBN 141790657X.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
1909. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal
of the British upper middle class and for his social satire.
Contents: The Silver Box; Strife; Justice; The Pigeon; A Bit
O'Love; and Loyalties. See other titles by this author available
from Kessinger Publishing.
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Justice (Hardcover)
John, Sir Galsworthy; Introduction by George P. Baker
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R954
Discovery Miles 9 540
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Out of stock
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THIS 94 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Representative
Plays by John Galsworthy, by John Galsworthy. To purchase the
entire book, please order ISBN 141790657X.
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Justice (Hardcover)
John, Sir Galsworthy; Introduction by George P. Baker
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R670
R628
Discovery Miles 6 280
Save R42 (6%)
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1909. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal
of the British upper middle class and for his social satire.
Contents: The Silver Box; Strife; Justice; The Pigeon; A Bit
O'Love; and Loyalties. See other titles by this author available
from Kessinger Publishing.
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Justice (Paperback)
John Galsworthy; Introduction by George P. Baker
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R518
Discovery Miles 5 180
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Out of stock
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1909. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal
of the British upper middle class and for his social satire.
Contents: The Silver Box; Strife; Justice; The Pigeon; A Bit
O'Love; and Loyalties. See other titles by this author available
from Kessinger Publishing.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
1919. From the Introduction: The Harvard Dramatic Club before the
War brought a pause of two years in its activities, had for some
ten years produced annually as part of its activity three or four
one-act plays. The four new selections from its repertory of
one-act pieces included in this volume can hardly require any
special introduction, for the history of the Harvard Dramatic Club
was given in the prefatory matter to the volume of one-act plays of
this Club published in 1918, and the reception by the public of the
four plays therein contained shows that they were welcome to
readers and amateur acting organizations. The plays here printed
have not been chosen as the only remaining four sufficiently
worthy, for there are others any editor would be glad to see
published in a volume like this, but as a group which perhaps gives
the volume best variety and balance. The editor's hope is that they
may please their public as well as did the first group of Harvard
Dramatic Club plays. Contains: The Harbor of Lost Ships, by Louise
Whitefield Bray; Garafelia's Husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The
Scales and the Sword, by Farnham Bishop; and The Four-Flushers, by
Cleves Kinkead.
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