Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough

Why were they so intent on breaking up instead of building up? And last: What did this all have to do with doing business?

“CEOs learned two things from LBOs,”

“First, the way to build significant wealth was through equity ownership, not salary and bonuses, and second,

you didn’t need to do any LBO to build equity. You could give you...

the CEO as self-interested no-company man;

CEO as daring swashbuckler and bold expropriator of corporate

as...

raw emotions and colliding egos; improbable