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Article: Corporate governance along the digital divide.
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- Directors & Boards
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- January 1, 2001
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A just-completed study with top dot-com executives surfaces a starkly different portrait of stewardship.
THE LEGENDARY newspaper columnist Walter Winchell once observed, "Nothing recedes like success." Executives at a lot of dot-coms that were on top of the world just a year or two ago now know only too well what he meant. The ups and downs of many new companies built around the Internet over the last four years are prominently chronicled in the media daily. A good deal of this attention has centered on areas ranging from the growing number of once pioneering Web firms teetering on the brink of financial collapse, the high percentage of remaining businesses in ...