"The Corporate Financiers is the fifth book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of modern finance, this volume presents the ways in which a corporation creates value....

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I Corporate Governance and the Market for Corporate Control -- 1 U.S. Corporate Governance: Lessons from the 1980s -- 2 The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems -- 3 Active Investors, LBOs, and the...