Harvey Weinstein is at the top of not just one list but two: that of sexual harassers and aggressors but also another one of abusive, tyrannical CEOs.

Both Harvey and his brother Bob belonged to various lists of America’s toughest bosses publicized by a largely admiring business press including Fortune and Business Week starting in 1980.  Journalists and editors underscored their tyrannical and abusive management styles and praised their willingness to make "hard" decisions, such as downsizing middle management, cutting wages, and ordering massive layoffs during the heady days of the go-go 1980s and 1990s of corporate raiders, leveraged-buyouts (LBOs), and company mergers.

Articles included the names of Steve Jobs (NeXT Computing), Donald Rumsfeld (G.D. Searle Pharmaceuticals), Carl Icahn (TWA), Andrew Grove (Intel), and Jack Welch (General Electric). Many of those names are still with us--and so is their management style.