Similar Articles |
|
Salon.com January 18, 2002 Jake Tapper |
More than one Enron official warned company about growing crisis One staff lawyer grew so worried, he secretly hired an outside law firm to review the company's murky business partnerships. Another executive was reassigned after raising alarms... |
CFO Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
Salon.com January 29, 2002 Jake Tapper |
How to be an Enron millionaire According to former colleagues, two executives reaped million-dollar windfalls by investing $6,000 apiece in the company's partnership scam. A case study in corporate rot... |
HBS Working Knowledge July 7, 2008 Martha Lagace |
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron Companies can take steps to help senior executives avoid the two sources of leadership failure at Enron: personal opportunism and flights to utopianism. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Oh, the Games Enron Played The Enron story is not simply a case of a lone company that played with fire and got burned. Enron was able to take enormous risks while keeping shareholders in the dark because it could exploit accounting loopholes for subsidiaries that are available to most publicly traded companies. |
BusinessWeek March 21, 2005 Wendy Zellner |
Inside Enron's House of Cards Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald offers the liveliest and probably the best Enron account so far. |
Salon.com November 30, 2001 Andrew Leonard |
Will Bush be tarnished by Enron's collapse? The crash of his top corporate backer should discredit the president's anti-regulation economic policies, but it's unlikely to lead to reform... |
Salon.com January 15, 2002 Andrew Leonard |
Ken Lay: "There are no accounting issues" Even as an executive was warning Enron's CEO of impending problems, he was telling the press that all was well... |
The Motley Fool October 14, 2009 David Williamson |
The Daily Walk of Shame: Jeffrey Skilling Jeffrey Skilling, former president of Enron, was convicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy, and insider trading and forced to serve 292 months, a little over 24 years, in federal prison. What's he up to now? |
BusinessWeek May 8, 2006 Lorraine Woellert |
The-Reporter-Did-It-Defense Ken Lay claims the press sped Enron's fall by scaring investors. Does he have a case? |
HBS Working Knowledge July 21, 2006 Malcolm S. Salter |
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message The most noteworthy message of the Enron trial is that corporate executives can be convicted in a court of law for a pattern of deception that may or may not be illegal. |
BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 Mark Gimein |
The Skilling Trap Skilling and Lay sacrificed the spirit of the law for the letter. They're not alone. |
Job Journal April 9, 2006 Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Enron Kept Reality at Bay When Enron's problems first surfaced, Lay and Skilling had an obligation to be candid with everyone around them. |
CFO June 1, 2006 Joseph McCafferty |
Portland General Electric's Jim Piro An Enron survivor, Piro had to reassure banks, creditors, ratings agencies, and customers that the utility wasn't tainted by the energy trader's sins. |
BusinessWeek February 6, 2006 Anthony Bianco |
Ken Lay's Audacious Ignorance Even if one of America's worst ex-CEOs beats the rap - and he just might - history's verdict will be harsh. |
Fast Company May 2002 John Ellis |
Wall Street's Den of Thieves If you follow the trail of deceit from Enron to its natural lair, it only leads to one destination: Wall Street. Here's why... |
Fast Company May 2002 George Anders |
How to Spot the Next Enron Want to know how to avoid being fooled by the next too-good-to-be-true stock-market darling? Just remember these six tips from the cynics of Wall Street, the short sellers... |
Salon.com October 8, 2002 Andrew Leonard |
In greed we trusted Robert Bryce's Enron book entertainingly chronicles fraudulent excesses and office sex. But was Enron a fluke -- or capitalism taken to its logical extreme? |
Salon.com November 9, 2001 Andrew Leonard |
Enron, we hardly knew ye Ironically, only one thing could have saved the now-imploding corporate poster child for deregulation: Tougher regulations requiring more financial "transparency"... |
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Bill Mann |
Lay Surrenders, Pleads Not Guilty It took more than two years for to make a case against the executive who lorded over Enron's collapse that federal prosecutors think will stick. |
Fast Company March 2002 John Ellis |
Life After Enron's Death Preventing another Enron means understanding what really went wrong. That means understanding transparency, opportunity, and speed... |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2004 Bill Mann |
Another Brick in the Enron Wall Prosecutors get their biggest prize to date: Enron executive Jeff Skilling. |
U.S. Banker January 2002 |
Beware the Syndicators Citigroup and J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., which syndicated billions of dollars of loans to Enron, should have known the truth about Enron�'s condition, and should not have had to depend on outside accountants or on the various rating agencies... |
Salon.com January 24, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Houston under siege Residents of Enron's hometown can't stop comparing the collapse of the energy trader to Sept. 11... |
Salon.com January 19, 2002 Andrew Leonard |
Capitalist pigs The sordid tales of Enron plutocrats looting the company of its treasure as their employees and shareholders faced ruin are enough to turn you into a class warrior... |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2006 Tim Hanson |
Meet the Men Who Fleeced Enron Former Enron workers and investors can be happy that at least a few smart folks stuck it to Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, buying valuable assets on the cheap and building successful companies from what Enron discarded. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2002 John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
The Motley Fool July 5, 2006 Bill Mann |
The Death of a Salesman How do you eulogize one of the most hated men in America? Ken Lay managed to destroy the wealth of tens of thousands of people and trigger much-needed reforms in how America regulates its public companies. |
U.S. Banker January 2002 |
Trust Big Accounting Firms? Arthur Andersen, the huge accounting firm, hides behind legal technicalities to excuse itself for approving Enron's financial statements. Rather than working for shareholders and investors as it is supposed to, Andersen seems to have done whatever Enron's management wanted it to... |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Mike France |
Heiress In Handcuffs Lea Fastow is charged with helping husband Andy orchestrate the white-collar crime of the century. Now she could be the key to nailing Enron's top dogs. |
The Motley Fool February 10, 2006 Bill Mann |
EnWrong Enron's management was great at convincing people that the company's stock offered the greatest opportunity since the Oklahoma land rush. It didn't. The fact that people continue to bet on hope means that the Enron lesson is sure to be repeated. |
U.S. Banker April 2002 Robert A. Bennett |
We've Learned Nothing Despite the Enron-Andersen scandal, little has changed, at least so far... |
BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 Michael Orey |
Enron's Last Mystery Was Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, as blind to the company's shenanigans as it maintains? Internal messages suggest the firm doubted the legitimacy of some of Enron's business practices. |
BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 France, Zellner & McNamee |
The Case Against Jeff Skilling Enron prosecutors haven't been dragging their feet. The problem is, with few of the ex-CEO's directives in writing, there are no smoking guns |
The Motley Fool June 6, 2006 Joseph Khattab |
The Next Enron Cash is king. Despite what some business execs want you to believe, cash pays the bills -- accounting earnings do not. Cash flow is much more difficult to manipulate than earnings, which makes it a better analysis tool for investors. |
Salon.com February 8, 2002 Jake Tapper |
Making a Skilling Anyone who thinks Enron executives can't be all bad didn't see them before Congress Thursday... |
Fast Company May 2002 Charles Fishman |
What If You'd Worked at Enron? We've all heard the same Enron story: executives at the top behaving badly, victims at the bottom losing their savings. But the truth is in the middle... |
Entrepreneur January 2003 Jason Leopold |
Enron But Not Forgotten Being a former Enron employee doesn't necessarily leave you out in the cold in the business community -- not for entrepreneurs with the guts to restake their names on ventures of their own. |
BusinessWeek February 6, 2006 |
No More Brush-Offs How former Enron accountant Lisa Bromiley Meier finally got past the "Enron" on her resume. |
BusinessWeek February 6, 2006 Christopher Palmeri |
I Survived Enron Recovery, setbacks, legal justice, entrepreneurship, even true love: The stories of six rank-and-filers who fled the Enron wreckage. |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2012 Chuck Saletta |
I Will Not Throw Good Money After Bad in 2012 There's bargain hunting, and then there's stupid. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 12, 2004 Martha Lagace |
Enron's Lessons for Managers Like the Challenger space shuttle disaster was a learning experience for engineers, so too is the Enron crash for managers, says Harvard Business School professor Malcolm S. Salter. Yet what have we learned? |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Enron's Board Gives Black Eye to Efforts Aimed at Improving Corporate Governance By not keeping Enron from barreling down the wrong track to a rendezvous with catastrophe, the board has given a black eye to efforts by other American firms to improve corporate governance in recent years... |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2004 David Murphy |
Trying Times for Martha What does the Stewart trial mean for her company's bottom line? |
BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 Maria Bartiromo |
The Ones Who Got Away If the Enron saga has a truth teller, it's Sherron Watkins, the whistleblowing executive who at least tried to do the right thing. Watkins hasn't been shy about speaking to the media or going on the lecture circuit. But her candor here may surprise you. |
U.S. Banker January 2002 Robert A. Bennett |
Put the Reins on Passion Lenders and investors were so caught up in Enron's philosophy that they were blind to reality... |
Salon.com January 23, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Easy come, easy go One of the few Enron employees who still has a job expresses little regret -- even though he lost a "colossal" amount of money... |
CFO April 1, 2003 Roy Harris |
The Case Against Cases Enron's popularity as a business-school "success story" raises tough questions about how cases are prepared. |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2006 |
Foolish Flashback: Enron's Jeff Skilling As the Enron trial of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling continues, here's a 2001 interview with Skilling about the company's presence on the Internet as well as his views of the California power shortage. |
CFO October 1, 2008 Stephen Taub |
Enron: Another Final Chapter Ex-shareholders get a drop of solace in the form of $7.2 billion in settlements. |