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Driven to the Brink

Why Corporate Governance, Board Leadership and Culture Matter

By: Alicia Micklethwait,Patricia Dimond

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Driven to the Brink

Why Corporate Governance, Board Leadership and Culture Matter

By: Alicia Micklethwait,Patricia Dimond

Driven to the Brink is a collection of short stories about corporate disasters and how inadequate governance and flawed culture caused a massive destruction of shareholder value. Look at any major corporate meltdown and two factors emerge: a failure of corporate governance and a culture where short-termism and greed are rewarded and risk is encouraged to flourish unchecked. Two years before the latest crash, Alicia Micklethwait co-wrote the best-selling Greed and Corporate Failure which examined some of the high profile corporate disasters of the early years of the 21st century. Sadly those lessons were forgotten. Companies have continued to be Driven to the Brink of disaster. Now, with co-author Patty Dimond, they examine what we must learn this time around. Drawing on in-depth case studies of the Libor scandal, Olympus, Co-op, Kids Company and others, Dimond and Micklethwait ask what have we learned and more importantly, what can we do to prevent these disasters from happening again? They also examine the large, emerging and less widely understood world of Corporate China with detailed discussion of the Lixel and Glaxo frauds. On a positive note, staying with China, they look at the story of Alibaba and ask is an ethical culture enough to protect shareholder rights?

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Driven to the Brink

Why Corporate Governance, Board Leadership and Culture Matter

By: Alicia Micklethwait,Patricia Dimond

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Why Corporate Governance, Board Leadership and Culture Matter

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Greed and Corporate Failure

The Lessons from Recent Disasters

By: Stewart Hamilton,Alicia Micklethwait

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Greed and Corporate Failure

The Lessons from Recent Disasters

By: Stewart Hamilton,Alicia Micklethwait

This is the book for anyone who wants to know what really lies behind the scandals and disasters of global business that have marred the first few years of the twenty-first century. This book is not about stock market "bubbles". Nor is it about accounting scandals and craven auditors. Rather, it examines why companies fail. The authors postulate that the reasons companies fail are few, and all too common. Detailed studies of eight of the most famous recent failures identify six main causes: poor strategic decisions; over-expansion and ill-judged acquisitions; dominant CEOs; greed, hubris and a desire for power; failure of internal controls, and ineffective boards. The authors also set out what the prudent investor, board member or manager should be alert to but often is not.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403986363

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9781403986368

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