TY - BOOK AU - Skeel,David A. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Icarus in the boardroom: the fundamental flaws in corporate America and where they came from T2 - Law and current events masters AV - HD2785 .S437 2005eb U1 - 338.0973 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Corporate governance KW - United States KW - Directors of corporations KW - Industrial management KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234) and index; Jay Cooke and the birth of America's first large scale corporations -- The gilded age and the crisis of competition -- Icarus meets the New Deal -- "I want to be like Mike" : LBO's and the new corporate governance -- Enron, WorldCom, and the transformation of Icarus -- "The most sweeping securities law reforms since the New Deal" -- "We have met the corporation and it is us."; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10233627 ER -