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Corporate Crisis Management

By Harvey L. Leiderman
October 05, 2005

Fielding a Winning Team for Shareholders

Wichita, KS, was an unlikely spot for finding metaphors. Sitting in a rental car on the steaming asphalt outside the Summer College Baseball World Series, I took a cell phone call from my old friend and client, Craig Conway, President and CEO of PeopleSoft, Inc. Craig, at 48, had led his company into the real big leagues. Under his leadership, PeopleSoft had become the second largest software applications business in the world, only to find itself in August of 2003 fending off a hostile tender offer launched 2 months earlier by number three, Oracle Corporation. And Oracle had deep pockets for the fight and a deeper reputation for fighting dirty.

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