Barings and Allied Irish Bank: Lessons Ignored -- Enron: Paper Profits, Cash Losses -- WorldCom: Disconnected -- Tyco: Greed, Hubris and the $6000 Shower Curtain -- Marconi: Establishment to Wunderkind to Basketcase -- Swissair: Crashed and Burned -- Royal Ahold: Shopped till he Dropped -- Parmalat: Milking the System.