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Cynthia Cooper was one of Time's 2002 Persons of the Year. She was the vice president of internal audit for WorldCom and subsequently MCI. Cynthia was featured as one of twenty-five influential working mothers in Working Mother magazine, and earned the distinction of being the first woman to receive the AAA Accounting Exemplar Award and to be inducted into the AICPA Business & Industry Hall of Fame. She resigned from MCI in 2004, following the company's successful emergence from bankruptcy, and now shares the lessons she has learned through her experiences with professionals and students. She and her husband Lance reside in Mississippi with their two daughters.
Dedication vi
Introduction vii
Acknowledgments xi
CHAPTER 1 A Dark Cloud 1
CHAPTER 2 Graduation Day 12
CHAPTER 3 New Beginnings 26
CHAPTER 4 Hotlanta 41
CHAPTER 5 The Turnaround 50
CHAPTER 6 Coming Home 60
CHAPTER 7 Building A New Life 71
CHAPTER 8 King of the Resellers 82
CHAPTER 9 The Hottest Company in Town 91
CHAPTER 10 Nowhere to Go But Up 105
CHAPTER 11 A New Era 123
CHAPTER 12 The Glass Sieve 137
CHAPTER 13 The Tide Comes In 145
CHAPTER 14 The Minnow Swallows the Whale 151
CHAPTER 15 Finding Balance 163
CHAPTER 16 Top of the Mountain 167
CHAPTER 17 A Double-Edged Sword 174
CHAPTER 18 A Titan Stumbles 184
CHAPTER 19 The Rule of Ten 202
CHAPTER 20 What is Prepaid Capacity? 217
CHAPTER 21 Growing Suspicions 229
CHAPTER 22 A Surprise Visit 242
CHAPTER 23 The Confrontation 251
CHAPTER 24 A Desperate Search For Counsel 265
CHAPTER 25 Washington Attorneys Visit the Deep South 280
CHAPTER 26 Navigating the Storm 296
CHAPTER 27 A Visit to Federal Court 322
CHAPTER 28 The United States Versus Bernard J. Ebbers 338
CHAPTER 29 The Judgment 351
EPILOGUE 362
NOTES 368
INDEX 395
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