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The narrative explores a significant corporate disaster during the recent economic boom-and-bust cycle, focusing on the rise and fall of America's most widely held stock. It delves into the factors that contributed to the market mania and the subsequent near-destruction of the company, offering insights into the complexities of corporate dynamics and market behavior. The account highlights the lessons learned from this tumultuous period in financial history.

Revelatory insider's account of the rise and rise of a highly successful and controversial investment bank. schovat popis

Until 1998, when partners voted to go public, Goldman Sachs was Wall Street's last major private partnership and more profitable than any publicly-owned competitors. The author, a former company vice-president, traces the rise and development of the firm and its concept of "People and Culture".