Label: Henry Kravis (11)

Much has been said and written about the RJR Nabisco deal (1988), so I won't dwell much more on that one deal in these vignettes other than to say that there was an unpleasant by-product of that story. We were labeled "barbarians." The stigma mostly came from the title of the 1989 book "Barbarians at the Gate," which depicted the inside story of the buyout of RJR Nabisco and became a worldwide bestseller.