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100 1  Bing, Stanley.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n88158878 
245 10 Rome, inc. :|bthe rise and fall of the first multinational
       corporation /|cStanley Bing. 
250    1st. ed. 
264  1 New York :|bNorton,|c[2006] 
264  4 |c©2006 
300    xvi, 197 pages :|billustrations ;|c21 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Enterprise 
500    "Atlas books." 
505 0  Preface: think global, kill local -- In which two brothers
       form the beginnings of a pretty fair mom-and-pop -- 
       Enterprise -- First acquisitions and other rapes -- The 
       Republic: an ode to the well-run corporation -- Wars wars 
       and more wars -- Crazy Republicans -- Marius, the first 
       mogul -- The end of the day -- Julius Caesar and the 
       reinvention of the corporation -- Antony & Augustus -- The
       spirit fails -- The decline and fall of the Roman Empire 
       (abridged) -- Afterword: what have we learned? 
520    The world's first corporate case study: A family business 
       prospers through a productive series of brutal 
       consolidations and rational growth. Then the rise of an 
       executive class that pits one egotistical senior manager 
       against another in senseless internal conflicts eventually
       leads to a long line of demented CEOs, excessive expansion,
       and foolish diversification--and a high cost in shattered 
       lives. In the end, a series of reverse takeovers leave the
       once-proud but now overextended and corrupt parent company
       at the mercy of the mom-and-pop operations that previously
       cringed at the grandeur of the corporate brand. Enron? 
       WorldCom? Try Rome, whose rise and fall carry a moral that
       lingers to this day for the managers, employees, and 
       students of any global enterprise. Business satirist Bing 
       mingles parable and cautionary tale into an ingenious new 
       telling of the story of the Roman Empire.--From publisher 
       description. 
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650  0 Parables|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
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650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Parables.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1052768 
651  0 Rome|xHistory|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85115108|vHumor.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh99001253 
651  7 Rome (Empire)|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204885 
655  7 Humor.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423696 
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830  0 Enterprise (New York, N.Y.)|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n2004070563 
856 41 |3Table of contents|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065
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