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| Title Statement | Eli and the octopus: the CEO who tried to reform one of the world's most notorious corporations / Matt Garcia. |
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| Author | Garcia, Matt |
| Publication | Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,2023. |
| Extent of Item | xiv, 265 pages |
| ISBN | 9780674980808 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07252624 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary | "Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical business. Then he died by suicide. How did it all go wrong? Matt Garcia traces Black's own descent into corruption and despair--the unraveling, and the deliberate forgetting, of one of America's most enigmatic business leaders"-- |
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| By Topic | Business ethics |
| Chief executive officers--Biography--United States | |
| Jewish businesspeople--Biography--United States | |
| By Name | Black, Eli M.,1921-1975 |
| United Fruit Company | |
| By Genre | Biographies |
