You should have pivoted to corporate crime. You seem to like criminal stuff. Naughty people doing naughty things. You're slightly perverted. Why not, why stick to what you were doing? Re-tool. Dude.
You might also enjoy Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of crowds (altho i understand a lot of that is actually apocryphal bollox, still a good read)
Thought they were smart. Ivy league. MBAs from Wharton. Get them to change the valves on a norton manx? No chance. Ask them to strike up a blues riff on a Les Paul? You are joking.
Liar's Poker is the obvious (but still true) answer
Not a scandal as such - more a clash of cultures thing - there's a good book about the Essex born chap who became CEO of Olympus (or possibly Sony?) that's worth a read. Woodford I think he names as/is
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Barbarians at the gate
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Old news now, but 'Barbarians at the Gate'.
'Manipulation on Trial' about the Hunt brothers in the silver market.
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Snap.
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Shredded about rbs is pretty good
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Good recent one - and possibly the only interesting book ever to have been written about insurnace...
Dead in the Water
Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
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Not strictly a corporate scandal - more industry-level intrigue
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Smartest Guys in the Room - the film of the same name is v v g
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ooh, sounds good
I have read BATG but not for years, will read that again some time
anything good about Maxwell? I did read N Person’s book years ago
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When Genius Failed
Flash Boys
Black Edge
Spider Network
All financial services focused.
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Trollope - The Way We Live Now
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house of wirecard and money men by dan mccrum are good
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Didn't realise house of wirecard was out yet: cool
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There is a wework book which I found absolutely tedious and stopped reading tbh
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Wework is not that interesting as a scandal. It just seemed to revolve around the founder being a twot.
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OGR WINS THIS THREAD
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Ifangyew
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What was the one about Enron ?
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Well, Lucy Prebble's play, 'Enron'. V v good even as a read.
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You should have pivoted to corporate crime. You seem to like criminal stuff. Naughty people doing naughty things. You're slightly perverted. Why not, why stick to what you were doing? Re-tool. Dude.
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Exposure. Michael Woodford. Re Olympus.
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Key Man about Abraaj
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Too big to fail.
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You might also enjoy Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of crowds (altho i understand a lot of that is actually apocryphal bollox, still a good read)
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Traders Guns and Money - a potted history of how derivatives cause huge financial crashes.
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Boo Hoo is a good read about the original boo.com
A classic dotcom money pit
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Spider Network would be a gr7 one for you laz. It's all about LIBOR fixing.
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“Billion dollar whale” about the Malaysian investment fund
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"Fooling some of the people all of the time" by David Einhorn. A bit full of himself, but an interesting read.
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Will read that Trunnie! Thanks.
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+1 for each of Shredded and Flash Boys.
Not sure i would describe Barbarians at the Gate as being about corporate scandal, but a great book nonetheless.
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Chambers - the smartest guys in the room
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Thought they were smart. Ivy league. MBAs from Wharton. Get them to change the valves on a norton manx? No chance. Ask them to strike up a blues riff on a Les Paul? You are joking.
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The Hard Sell if you're not bored of corporate opioid pushers.
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Liar's Poker is the obvious (but still true) answer
Not a scandal as such - more a clash of cultures thing - there's a good book about the Essex born chap who became CEO of Olympus (or possibly Sony?) that's worth a read. Woodford I think he names as/is
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Bad Blood (re Theranos) was pretty good.
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I see that Pinot has beaten me to it, but saw the discussion on the ROF front page and came here to recommend:
Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower, Michael Woodford
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Exposure-President-Whistleblower-at-Olympus-ebook/dp/B009K6DLAQ
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