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Breaking the Bank (Gary Hector)

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Breaking the Bank (Gary Hector)
Full titleBreaking the Bank: The Decline of BankAmerica
AuthorGary Hector
Published1988
Pages363
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Why it’s on the listGary Hector’s reported account of how BankAmerica — for a time the largest bank in the world — lost its position across the 1970s and 1980s: the lending decisions, the technology and management failures, and the succession fights behind the losses and boardroom upheaval of the mid-1980s.

Breaking the Bank (Gary Hector)

Where I heard about it

  • @mastersinvest — on his “2025 Reading … so far” list (August 2025), in bold — his mark for “very good” rather than merely read. The full 46-title list is on 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet).

Connections

  • 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet) — the list this came from.
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