Since its publication in 1998, this indispensable text has been the only systematic examination of corporate renewal, offering a rational approach for dealing with financially distressed companies. It contains the first logical and orderly discussion of a number of modern business issues including outsourcing, turnaround management, layoffs, quality management, and reengineering.
Now in its second edition, Harlan D. Platt has revised, updated, and expanded the text to include a new chapter on bankruptcy law, a profile of the turnaround manager, and an overview of the typical turnaround...

A helpful tool for business students studying turnaround management and corporate renewal.
A Casebook on Corporate Renewal spans a variety of business areas relevant to corporate renewal and turnaround management. Corporate renewal, as a topic taught and discussed in business schools, has surged in the past decade. The cases in this book were selected to cover the knowledge and skills needed by successful turnaround managers, including ethical and legal issues; developing a plan of reorganization; and defining problems and their solutions, including strategic, financial, and...

Platt (finance, Northeastern U.) chronicles the growth, decline, and restructuring of oil and gas company Texas International Inc. in the 1980s and the criminal involvement of Drexel Lambert investment house banker, Michael Milken. To draw lessons from this case, the author interviews a fund manager

Unintended consequences affect people's lives, happiness, and fortunes. They arise from every action and decision. This provocative book presents many unintended consequences and ultimately explains how their impact can be reduced. Chapters in this fascinating book describe unintended consequences caused by governments, people, science, technology, companies, and medicine. Readers learn how unintended consequences can be controlled. The world will never be free of them. However, it is possible to control the biggest perpetrator of the most damaging unintended consequences - the government....