corporations

Profiles seven leaders who saved their failing companies by focusing on the truth and sharing it with their employees.

Stephen Jones, a young recruit, reports to the Zephyr Holding Building on his first day of training to find a building numbered in reverse, an invisible CEO, and a crisis over the theft of a donut.

Argues that Americans are losing control over their lives to a handful of global conglomerates, and calls for changes in the country's corporate system designed to keep businesses healthy while making them accountable to the people.

Explains how the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behavior, if left unchecked, can lead to scandal and ruin.

Turner, high-corporate commando, is still recovering from his last mission when he is reactivated by the Hosaka Corporation to make sure the defecting chief of Maas-Neotek's research and development gets out intact along with the biochip he has perfected.

On his first day of training, Stephen Jones, a young recruit, reports to the Zephyr Holding Building, where he finds a company defined by its lack of clarity, a building numbered in reverse, an invisible CEO, and a crisis over the theft of a donut, in a zany satire of corporate life.

Profiles several successful American businesses, including Apple Computer and Ben & Jerry's, describing their histories and providing biographical sketches of their founders and other important figures. This volume covers A-F.

Explains corporate bailouts, discussing the factors in business that result in government intervention, and examining bailouts that have occurred during the economic recession of the early twenty-first century, as well as others throughout history.

"An investigation into the secretive corporation traces the period between the Exxon Valdez accident and the Deepwater Horizion spill to profile chief executives Lee Raymond and Rex Tillerson as well as the company's role in violent international incidents"--Provided by publisher.