I'd like the world to buy a coke : the life and leadership of Roberto Goizueta

Robert Goizueta created more stockholder wealth than anyone in history. Here's how he did it... The late Roberto Goizueta helped catapult the successful but stagnant Coca-Cola into the world's most powerful brand and one of the greatest generators of stockholder wealth in history. At the time of his death, he was hailed in papers around the world as one of the most innovative and successful CEO's of our time. Yet little is known of this corporate maverick. This is his story. When Roberto Goizueta fled Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1960, he had just $200 in his pocket and 100 shares of Coca-Cola stock in a New York bank. He also had a job at the Coca-Cola Co. By the time he died in 1997, the Coca-Cola chairman was worth $1 billion and had transformed Coke from a doddering giant into one of the world's most successful and admired companies. Under his leadership, Coke's stock price jumped 3500%, the company tripled in size, and it controlled nearly half of the world's soft drink market. I'd Like the World to Buy a Coke takes a candid look at the life and career of one of the longest-serving and highest-paid chief executives in history. Greising chronicles every phase in a career fraught with surprising twists and turns, from Goizueta's watershed decision to break away from his father and work for Coke, to his flight from Cuba, to his grooming for the chairman's job and the bitter battle for Coke's corner office. The book gives previously unpublished insight into Coke's conquest of eastern Europe and push for truly worldwide distribution, its controversial hiring of the Hollywood talent agency behind the "Always Coca-Cola" campaign, Goizueta's behind-the-scenes push to bring the Olympics to Atlanta, and his careful selection of his own successor, years before his sudden death from lung cancer in October 1997. A biography of the chairman of the Coca-Cola company, Roberto Goizueta, a Cuban who started his career as a chemical engineer for Coke. In 1960 he fled Castro's Cuba with $200 in his pocket and 100 shares of Coke stock. At the time of his death in 1997 he was worth $1 billion and one of the longest-serving CEO's in history Traces the life of the late CEO of Coca-Cola, who fled Cuba in 1960 to begin an unlikely ascent through the ranks of the company, which he revitalized through tough management and a focus on production The young Cuban scrutinizing the pages of Diario de La Marina did not typically read the help-wanted section of Havana's oldest and most conservative newspaper. Biographie de Roberto Goizueta, Président de Coca Cola Company. Un chapitre est consacré à Coca Cola et les Jeux Olympiques d'Atlanta