WorldCom became the largest corporate failure in US history when it filed for bankruptcy in July.
They will because politicians hate corporate failure and the job losses that come with it.
Sir William found "corporate failure" at the Ministry of Defence was to blame for the use of banned interrogation methods in Iraq.
And for that, I think Bezos has inherited the ability to keep cool in the midst of complete corporate failure, just like Jobs.
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In Lay's World, the man who oversaw perhaps the most dramatic corporate failure ever with a straight face offered a discourse on good government.
Until not too long ago, the notion of large corporate failure was anathema, leading to the sort of resistance to change that has - economists say - rendered Europe's economy relatively uncompetitive.
Along with growing pressure from investors, who want clearer rules on where they stand in the pecking order in the event of corporate failure, this could result in a more sensible, market-sensitive approach to bankruptcy throughout the European Union.
Of course, this is not baseball but one cannot ever take ego out of the equation when it comes to managing a company and it will not go unnoticed that if BHP is frustrated in its approach for Potash Corp. it will be the third corporate takeover failure to be chalked up by CEO Marius Kloppers since he assumed the role in 2007.
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The failure by corporate management and their legal advisors to confront these issues in any serious fashion is not surprising given the wholesale failure of the participants and facilitators in this industry to have undertaken a serious analysis of these risks.
Corporate complacency, in turn, leads into corporate blindness, the failure of management to see that their markets reach saturation or are undermined by alternative products.
Some lessons were broad, like the importance of a corporate culture that tolerates both failure and change.
Dependency on a single company is interesting when exploring the risks that a single instance of corporate mismanagement (or strategic failure, or organizational misfortune) could cause severe economic damage.
But it remains unlikely that Washington would regard the failure of a corporate merger - even one involving a firm as large and well-known as GE - as serious enough to warrant souring international relations.
Once branded a failure and a symbol of corporate greed, the company has reported profits during the last two years while repaying government loans.
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With its printer business under fire, HP's latest corporate software play can't be a failure.
So I began to wonder if the quality issues in these two outlets stemmed from the failure of local staff to follow corporate guidelines.
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Many of the current economic problems do indeed go back to the excesses of the 1990s, notably the failure to act on abuses of corporate governance.
The corporate raider has had his share of success and failure.
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With just four big accounting firms remaining, and none of the next tier big enough to take up the slack, the corporate world cannot easily handle another accounting-firm failure.
At the same time corporate leaders have rightly faced the wrath of activists for failure to deliver on this promise.
Failure to do that will leave the whole of the corporate world subject to the cancerous degradation that now threatens its entire viability.
The driving fear of failure, points out Mr Collins, is not unique to corporate life.
The right ones demand creating within the corporate framework a space of genuine creative chaos without clear goals, where repeated failure is a real and constant motivator.
The biggest supply-side obstacle to future growth may no longer be (if it ever was) excessive regulation or inflexible labour markets, but a corporate culture that finds it easy to tolerate low returns and difficult to tolerate outright failure.
The OECD said it was "seriously concerned about the UK's continued failure to address deficiencies in its laws on bribery of foreign public officials and on corporate liability for foreign bribery".
She gets verbose when asked about corporate culture at Valve, about how she's never worked at a company where risk and failure are so acceptable -- even encouraged.
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