Rome, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation

The world's first corporate case study, as only the best-selling Stanley Bing could tell it. A family business prospers through a series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then senseless internal conflicts lead to a long line of demented CEOs, monumental expansion, and foolish diversification—at a high cost in shattered lives. In the end, a series of reverse takeovers leaves the once-proud but now overextended and corrupt parent company at the mercy of less-civilized operations t...