Eli and the Octopus - The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World's Most Notorious Corporations (True EPUB)

Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World's Most Notorious Corporations (True EPUB)



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English | April 18th, 2023 | ISBN: 0674980808 | 280 pages | True EPUB | 7.15 MB

The poignant rise and fall of an idealistic immigrant who, as CEO of a major conglomerate, tried to change the way America did business before he himself was swallowed up by corporate corruption.

At 8 a.m. on February 3, 1975, Eli Black leapt to his death from the 44th floor of Manhattan's Pan Am building. The immigrant-turned-CEO of United Brands—formerly United Fruit, now Chiquita—Black seemed an embodiment of the American dream. United Brands was transformed under his leadership—from the "octopus," a nickname that captured the corrupt power the company had held over Latin American governments, to "the most socially conscious company in the hemisphere," according to a well-placed commentator. How did it all go wrong?