Retracing corporate biggies from their meteoric highs to steepest falls

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They are the titans who tumbled –a moment of greed here and a second of weakness or vanity there, and unsuspecting investors and the rest of the world looked on in horror as these seemingly indefatigable corporate czars came crashing, sometimes bringing down the colossal companies they helped shape and nurture in the first place. Close on the heels of the sentencing of Rajat Gupta, the former CEO of McKinsey and former director at Goldman, we retrace the fall of some of the most powerful corporate figures the world over.