Book description
In Buy, Lie, and Sell High, Harvard Business School Professor Daniel Quinn Mills offers the first systematic analysis of both the Internet stock bubble and the Enron scandal. Drawing upon extensive new research and insider interviews, Mills uncovers both systemic causes and outrageous misbehavior. He demonstrates how each link in the "financial value chain" failed, from venture funds to auditors and regulators. Finally, he offers practical guidance for investors and policymakers seeking to avoid the "next" speculative disaster.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- FINANCIAL TIMES Prentice Hall
- Financial Times Prentice Hall Books
- Acknowledgments
- The Bubble and Capital Markets
- How the Bubble Happened
- Inexperienced Leaders
- How Venture Firms Changed Their Criteria
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Taking Start-ups to the Public
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How Investment Banks Inflated the Bubble
- The Banks Bend the Rules
- The Investment Banks and Institutional Investors
- Who Brought Those Duds to Market?
- Mass Hysteria or Fraud
- The Blame Game
- Mass Hysteria
- What Did the Venture Firms Know?
- Did Wall Street Cross the Line?
- If You Can't Sue City Hall, Can You Sue Wall Street?
- Beware of “Buyer Beware”
- Talking Points
- The Retail Investor: Victim or Fool?
- Influencing Factors: Where Does Responsibility Lie?
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How Investment Banks Inflated the Bubble
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The Road Kill of Capitalism
- Sell, Sell, Sell!
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Dire Consequences
- Creating a New Business Cycle
- Economic Losses Caused by the Bubbles
- Starving Entrepreneurs of Capital
- Setting Back Technological Innovation
- What Happened in e-learning
- Meanwhile, in Germany…
- Another Wave of Internet Companies Is Coming
- A List of the Economic Consequences of the Bubble
- Insuring Public Confidence
- Talking Points
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A Troubled System
- Can America Lead?
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Reforms to Protect Small Investors
- The German Experience
- Every Investor a Qualified Investor
- Extending Fiduciary Responsibility
- Improving Disclosure and Governance at Mutual Funds
- A Return to a More Restrictive Prudent Person Rule
- Preventing Another Enron
- New Regulations to Protect Investors in IPOs
- Nine Reforms to Restore Confidence and Rebuild the Economy
- Talking Points
- Less Damage Next Time
Product information
- Title: Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2002
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 0130091138
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