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Frank Partnoy

Frank Partnoy appears in the following:

The Match King

Thursday, May 07, 2009

From the 1920's through the Great Depression, Ivar Kreuger made a fortune selling matches. His matchstick monopoly was one of the rare success stories of the period— but his business practices were more than questionable: shell companies, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting and even forgery. Frank Partnoy shows how Kreuger’s ...

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