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Back to the Future: Teaching the Greed Business

In: Greed

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  • Ken Starkey
  • Cary Cooper

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One of the most eloquent defences of greed appears in Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street, the story of insider trading during a time of stock market boom, and the arrival on the scene of a new breed of businessman, the corporate raider. In a speech to a shareholder’s meeting of Teldar Paper, Gordon Gekko, an archetypal raider planning to take over the company and, as we find later, asset strip and sell it on, mounts a swingeing critique of its management, an eloquent defence of his own actions and a business philosophy that survives.

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  • Ken Starkey & Cary Cooper, 2009. "Back to the Future: Teaching the Greed Business," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Alexis Brassey & Stephen Barber (ed.), Greed, chapter 4, pages 64-79, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24615-7_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230246157_5
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