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The First Junk Bond: A Story of Corporate Boom and Bust by Harlan D. Platt. The BEST book on a corporate finance through case studies. This is a detailed case study. Platt integrates corporate history, industry fundamental, financial analysis and bankruptcy law on a scale that has rarely, if ever, been attempted–book jacket. Sense & Nonsense in Corporate Finance: An Antidote to Conventional Thinking About LBOs, Capital Budgeting, Dividend Policy, and Creating Shareholder Value by Louis Lowenstein The New Financial Capitalist: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value by George P. Baker and George David Smith. This is sort of a text book explanation for Barbarians at the Gate Barbarians at the Gate by Burrough and Helyer—the hostile takeover of RJR Nabisco. Great drama and Corp. Fin. History. It Didn’t Have to be This Way: Why Boom and Bust is Unnecessary—and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle by Harry C. Veryser. Understand the big picture and the history of boom and busts. The Money Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980’s by Roy C. Smith. He also has many other books on the history of finance through the eyes of an investment banker—check for his books. The Takeover Game by John Brooks. Chronicles the buy-out boom of the 1980s. Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons that Rise Above the Ashes by Robert F. Bruner. Good and bad mergers. The Funny Money Game by Andrew Tobias. Conglomerate Boom
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The First Junk Bond: A Story of Corporate Boom and Bust by Harlan D.
Platt. The BEST book on a corporate finance through case studies. This is a
detailed case study. Platt integrates corporate history, industry fundamental,
financial analysis and bankruptcy law on a scale that has rarely, if ever, been
attempted–book jacket.
Sense & Nonsense in Corporate Finance: An Antidote to Conventional
Thinking About LBOs, Capital Budgeting, Dividend Policy, and Creating
Shareholder Value by Louis Lowenstein
The New Financial Capitalist: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation
of Corporate Value by George P. Baker and George David Smith. This is sort
of a text book explanation for Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the Gate by Burrough and Helyer—the hostile takeover of RJR
Nabisco. Great drama and Corp. Fin. History.
It Didn’t Have to be This Way: Why Boom and Bust is Unnecessary—and
How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle by Harry C.
Veryser. Understand the big picture and the history of boom and busts.
The Money Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the
1980’s by Roy C. Smith. He also has many other books on the history of
finance through the eyes of an investment banker—check for his books.
The Takeover Game by John Brooks. Chronicles the buy-out boom of the
1980s.
Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons that Rise Above the Ashes by Robert F.
Bruner. Good and bad mergers.
The Funny Money Game by Andrew Tobias. Conglomerate Boom
The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed
and the Mysteries of the Market by Leon Levy. I thought the book could
have been better, but you still get to learn from a legendary financier.
Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking
On the World by Ronald D. Orol. Investment bankers might take the other
side of these battles.
F. I. A. S. C. O: by Frank Partnoy. A classic on financial shenanigans.
A Devil of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of
Financial Innovation by Richard Bookstaber. The inside story of the
derivatives fiasco.
Books by Lewis like Liar’s Poker.
