WorldCom

Companiestelecommunications

Bernie Ebbers's roll-up and the $11bn accounting fraud that was the largest US bankruptcy until Lehman; a thinner literature than Enron's.

7 books · 3 people behind it

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  1. Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldComLynne W. Jeter, 2003
  2. Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate WhistleblowerCynthia Cooper, 2007
  3. The NumberAlex Berenson, 2003

The people behind it 3

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Academics 1

FP
Frank Partnoy1 book here

Journalists 2

FP
Frank Partnoy1 book here
RL
Roger Lowensteinnamed in their tags

Books 7

Infectious Greed
T2 Infectious Greed
Frank Partnoy · 2003 · Places WorldCom in a decade of engineered corporate deception.
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The Number
T2 The Number
Alex Berenson · 2003 · How the earnings-per-share culture produced WorldCom-style accounting.
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Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
T2 Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
Dan Reingold, Jennifer Reingold · 2006 · Insider account of the analyst-banking nexus that financed Ebbers's roll-up.
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Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of
T2 Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
Cynthia Cooper · 2007 · Insider: the internal auditor who uncovered the fraud.
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Broadbandits
T3 Broadbandits
Om Malik · 2003 · The telecom capex bubble, with Ebbers and WorldCom at its centre.
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Matt Mullenweg
Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldCo
T3 Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldCom
Lynne W. Jeter · 2003 · The main journalistic account.
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Stolen Without a Gun
T4 Stolen Without a Gun
Walter Pavlo, Neil Weinberg · 2007 · Insider: a convicted MCI/WorldCom finance manager.
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