Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail

Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not? This book investigates inner workings of over a dozen major financial and nonfinancial companies, reveals what went wrong and proposes a remedy. Regulators too must learn from past mistakes and require "constructive dialogue " for companies they supervise.

Preface ; Chapter One Repairing our Public and Private Institutions: A National Imperative ; Chapter Two Dynamics of the Financial Crisis ; Chapter Three Coping With the Crisis ; Chapter Four Company Governance and the Financial Crisis ; Chapter Five Risk Management and the Financial Crisis ; Chapter Six Company Organization, Business Models, and the Crisis ; Chapter Seven Supervision and Regulation of Financial Firms ; Chapter Eight Hyman Minsky: Will it Happen again? ; Chapter Nine Governance and Management: Lessons Learned ; Chapter Ten Governance and Management: Beyond the Financial Crisis ; References ; Index