Back to the Future: Teaching the Greed Business

Ken Starkey and Cary Cooper

Chapter 4 in Greed, 2009, pp 64-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Business School; Psychological Contract; Inside Trading; Moral Sentiment; Corporate Scandal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230246157_5

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