A case study of a company that exemplified the 80s.

This book takes an entirely new look at how companies ought to be managed. It argues that managers need to focus on how corporate decisions affect the firm's cash. The author, who is well known in the fields of management and crisis management, suggests that companies that follow the paradigm presented in the book are more likely to survive tumultuous times, provide higher returns to their investors, and have a conducive work environment.

A case study of a company that exemplified the 80s.

Unintended consequences affect people's lives, happiness, and fortunes. They arise from every action and decision. This provocative book presents many unintended consequences and ultimately explains how their impact can be reduced. Chapters in this fascinating book describe unintended consequences caused by governments, people, science, technology, companies, and medicine. Readers learn how unintended consequences can be controlled. The world will never be free of them. However, it is possible to control the biggest perpetrator of the most damaging unintended consequences - the government. Discussions of unintended consequences are well documented, informative and written in a comfortable style. This is a book that will be read, reread, and shared with others.

Platt (finance, Northeastern U.) chronicles the growth, decline, and restructuring of oil and gas company Texas International Inc. in the 1980s and the criminal involvement of Drexel Lambert investment house banker, Michael Milken. To draw lessons from this case, the author interviews a fund manager