BUSINESS COWBOYS

摘要

Many recent business failures and corporate collapses have everything a good potboiler needs, including unchecked egos, lifestyles of the rich and famous, Wall Street and inestimably huge mountains of money. But the endings are not happy ones, as any shareholder or employee would tell you. At the height of their success, it appeared that everything these companies touched turned to gold. So why did the fairytale end so unromantically? How could companies, having reached the heights of the Fortune "100 Best Companies to Work for in America", fall so unceremoniously? Reasons include the stock ticker, budget shortfalls, accounting issues and the fact that a select few in key roles, when faced with tough decisions, were driven not by their own values and those of the company, but rather by greed and perhaps a sense of being untouchable.