Eli and the Octopus : : The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations / / Matt Garcia.
The poignant rise and fall of an idealistic immigrant who, as CEO of a major conglomerate, tried to change the way America did business before he himself was swallowed up by corporate corruption.At 8 a.m. on February 3, 1975, Eli Black leapt to his death from the 44th floor of Manhattan’s Pan Am bui...
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