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Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
The longer WorldCom Chief Audit Executive Cynthia Cooper stares at the entries in front of her, the more sinister they seem. But the CFO is badgering her to delay her team's audit of the company's books and directing others to block Cooper's efforts. Still, something in the pit of her stomach tells her to keep digging. Cooper takes readers behind the scenes on a riveting, real-time journey as she and her team work at night and behind closed doors to expose the largest fraud in corporate history. Whom can they trust? Could she lose her job? Should she fear for her physical safety? In Extraordinary Circumstances, she recounts for the first time her journey from her close family upbringing in a small Mississippi town, to working motherhood and corporate success, to the pressures of becoming a whistleblower, to being named one of Time's 2002 Persons of the Year. She also provides a rare insider's glimpse into the spectacular rise and fall of WorldCom, a telecom titan, the darling of Wall Street, and a Cinderella story for Mississippi. With remarkable candor, Cooper discusses her struggle to overcome these challenges, and how she has found healing through sharing the lessons learned with the next generation. This book reminds us all that ethical decision-making is not forged at the crossroads of major events but starts in childhood, "decision by decision and brick by brick." At a time when corporate dishonesty is dominating public attention, Extraordinary Circumstances makes it clear that the tone set at the top is critical to fostering an ethical environment in the work-place. Provocative, moving, and intensely personal, Extraordinary Circumstances is a wake-up call to corporate leaders and an intimate glimpse at a scandal that shook the business world..
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Stolen Without A Gun: Confessions from inside history's biggest accounting fraud - the collapse of MCI Worldcom
Walter Pavlo, Jr. was a young MBA rising quickly through the finance ranks at the nation’s second largest telecom company With a beautiful wife, two kids and a promising career, he epitomized the American dream. Pavlo’s life took a dark turn when he became a willing participant in the company’s efforts to hide from investors and potential acquirers a mountain of bad debt run up by mobsters and other unsavory customers. Encouraged by higher-ups, Pavlo became accomplished at accounting gimmickry. Then the jaded young executive consorted with a colorful scam artist and others to use some of the same ploys he’d devised for his employer to enrich himself at its expense. A ruse born of disillusionment and greed turned into a nightmare for Pavlo after he was caught and forced to choose--rat on his buddies or spend decades rotting in prison. His crimes ultimately cost Pavlo his freedom, family, reputation and self-respect. Only later did he recognize that his original sins were part and parcel of the corruption that led to an historic collapse for his company, his industry and of public confidence in corporate America. With humor and raw honesty, Pavlo and award-winning Forbes senior editor Neil Weinberg use this compelling personal story to portray in intimate detail the pressures millions of white-collar workers face every day. .
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds Vol 1 & 2
Financier Bernard Baruch credited the lessons he learned from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds with his decision to sell all his stock ahead of the financial crash of 1929. Financial writer Michael Lewis includes the financial mania chapters in his book The Price of Everything as one of the six great works of economics, along with writings by Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a popular history of popular folly by Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. The book chronicles its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". We all remember the Dot Com boom and bust of the 2001 but did you know the same thing happened in Holland with tulips in 1637. Among the financial manias described by Mackay is the Dutch tulip mania of the early seventeenth century. Tulip mania started in 1637 when tulips and tulip bulbs suddenly became fashionable in Holland. Everyone who was anyone had to own tulip bulbs The price of the bulbs went from a few coins and went up and up. Every one scrambled to own tulips the price soared until on tulip bulb was worth the price of a mansion. And then suddenly overnight the price dropped to nothing. .
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Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldCom
The first inside look into the fall of the telecom industry pioneer Disconnected is the first book to tell the tale of the once powerful telecom pioneer whose corporate scandal eclipses the Enron fiasco. During the summer of 2002, WorldCom, once a leading carrier of Internet traffic, filed the largest bankruptcy claim in American history due to accounting errors totaling over $7 billion-and now finds itself on the brink of corporate extinction. Disconnected offers an engaging account of what really went wrong at WorldCom and why no one saw this corporate collapse coming. Author and award-winning journalist Lynn Jeter has been covering WorldCom since 1984 and provides a one-of-a-kind look into the inner workings of this global telecom giant. Readers will take a front row seat as Jeter explores the personalities and factors that led to WorldCom's rise and dramatic fall-such as the failed Sprint merger in 2000 and the revelation in June 2002 of their overstatement in earnings. Digging deep to uncover the mistakes, missteps, and outright unethical behavior that engulfed WorldCom, Disconnected also takes a closer look at former CEO Bernie Ebbers who was on the frontline during the years leading up to this corporate debacle. Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldCom gives readers the most telling account of a one-time industry giant. Lynne W. Jeter (Hattiesburg, MS) has been the primary WorldCom reporter for the only statewide business journal in Mississippi (home of WorldCom headquarters), The Mississippi Business Journal. Jeter has closely followed the company's rise and fall since its inception as LDDS in 1983. As a native Mississippian, Jeter has a solid knowledge of the unique business climate of the Deep South and access to a wealth of information and contacts that no other reporter could possess on this topic..
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Make It Happen Before Lunch: 50 Cut-to-the-Chase Strategies for Getting the Business Results You Want
Taking his cue from the legendary Hollywood deal maker, Swifty Lazar who once said “Make something happen before lunch,” Stephan Schiffman has boiled down his extensive business experience into inspirational lessons that any business professional can use. Now Schiffman focuses his attention on the art of building and maintaining business relationships. Drawing on his lifetime of experience training sales people at Sprint, AT&T, American Express, and Chase, Schiffman offers fifty invaluable nuggets of field-tested business advice including: Discover the joy of rejection. Don’t take yes for an answer. Remember people live 2 weeks at a time. Don’t confuse an obstacle with a tragedy. With each tip providing a fresh insight into overcoming whatever the business world throws at you, Schiffman will change the way you think about business and success..
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The Great Telecoms Swindle: How the collapse of WorldCom finally exposed the technology myth
"Anyone who tries to point a finger at a single group is not being fair." Jack Grubman, Salomon Brother analyst in testimony to a US Congressional committee investigating the fall of WorldCom "Bernie Ebbers didn't know anything about Scott Sullivan's decision to reallocate expenses on WorldCom's balance sheets." Reid Weingarten, attorney for Mr. Ebbers, at the same hearings "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" John Lydon, San Franciso, 1978 "The headlines that you expect to find in the business section are suddenly front-page news in national papers, at times on an almost daily basis. The WorldCom scandal, in the wake of the Enron crisis, has seen western political leaders including both Blair and Bush elevate matters related to the market's crash into issues of national priority. Suddenly, the collapse of the telecoms sector is on everyone's lips. But unlike many business scandals, The Great Telecoms Swindle almost certainly affects you. Millions have investments in the telecoms market (in the form of pensions, funds, equities, bonds, or otherwise), whilst almost all of us (millions more) carry a mobile phone in our pockets. The link between our relationsh ip with our phone companies and what's happened in the hallways of corporate power is a direct one. We are part of a vicious circle in which we as consumers have funded promises of an enhanced future that the industry has failed to deliver, and which as a result has brought the market to its knees. Are we to some extent paying for our own greed?" - Keith Brody.
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WorldCom: the accounting scandal.: An article from: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs
This digital document is an article from Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, published by Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs on August 29, 2002. The length of the article is 2673 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: WorldCom: the accounting scandal. Author: Bob Lyke Publication:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs (Report) Date: August 29, 2002 Publisher: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs Page: NA Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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SEC fines WorldCom $500 million. (Business).: An article from: Fiber Optics Weekly Update
This digital document is an article from Fiber Optics Weekly Update, published by Information Gatekeepers, Inc. on May 23, 2003. The length of the article is 759 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: SEC fines WorldCom $500 million. (Business). Publication:Fiber Optics Weekly Update (Newsletter) Date: May 23, 2003 Publisher: Information Gatekeepers, Inc. Volume: 23 Issue: 20 Page: 8(2) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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