Bryan Burrough,John Helyar

Barbarians at the Gate

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“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />country-region w:st="on”>Chicago Tribune raves, “It’s hard to imagine a better story…and it’s hard to imagine a better account.” And in an era of spectacular business crashes and federal bailouts, it still stands as a valuable cautionary tale that must be heeded.
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761 printed pages
Publication year
2009
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    Friends thought Cohen worked very hard to learn how to relax
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    Johnson, who carried that idea to every business he ever ran, boiled it down into a personal philosophy called “shit stirring”: a love for constant restructuring and reorganizing.
  • Mario Guzmanhas quoted6 years ago
    Of particular interest to Johnson were the many uses the bidders had found for the strain of junk bonds known as pay-in-kind securities, or PIK. The management group’s decision to “pile on the PIK” in place of cash still boggled his mind.

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