Eli and the octopus : the CEO who tried to reform one of the world's most notorious corporations
(2023)
By:
García, Matt
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
658.42092/GARCIA,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023
©2023
©2023
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780674980808, 0674980808, 9780674980808
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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"--