24th
July
2003
Tyrants, Statesmen, and Destroyers (A Brief History of the CEO)
“Today’s disgraced chieftains are the product of 100 years of evolution… At a time when corporate scandals have people wondering about the future of the chief executive, we decided to do a little digging into the past and ask, How did we get here? Can we draw a line from [John Jacob] Astor to Dennis Kozlowski?”

