Welch "may be the most high-profile executive in the classroom, but he won't be alone, " Huss noted.

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O'Neal is the highest-profile executive to lose his job this year in the wake of the market meltdown.

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In the years since, the country's been treated to one high-profile executive prosecution after another, the inevitable fallout from of a historic market bust.

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