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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. |
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"... |
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Paula Dwyer |
The SEC To Top Execs: Read The Fine Print The Ken Lay criminal indictment has overshadowed the parallel SEC civil lawsuit. But corporate insiders and their attorneys would be wise to give the SEC complaint a close read. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 |
Foolish Flashback: Enron's Ken Lay As Ken Lay's fraud and conspiracy trial begins today in Houston, here is a look back at a January 2000 interview. Read what he said then, and compare it with what we know now. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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 August 2, 2004 Amy Borrus |
The Case of the Vanishing 401(k)s Are workers' suits over retirement plans forcing Corporate America to improve them? Or do people still think, "it won't happen to me." |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool April 3, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
The Un-Enrons We salute the companies leading the way in a post-Enron (and anti-Enron) world. Investors, take note: Blue Nile... Whole Foods Market... |
BusinessWeek December 18, 2006 |
Corporate Justice Recent decisions in cases involving Enron, Computer Associates and WorldCom. |
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... |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2006 Robert Aronen |
Enron Still Matters Enron was a catastrophe in the public markets. Individual investors should take a hard look at the trial so they know what happened and how it came to be, with the intent of learning to avoid companies that exhibit the same characteristics in the future. |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2006 Seth Jayson |
Lay's Missouri Legacy Ken Lay attempts to take back his University of Missouri donation, but maybe the school can put it to better use. Ethical behavior among managers at all levels is a key to keeping that faith. Enron is a perfect example of the risks of the dark side. Don't hide from that, MU. Embrace it. |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Egg On Enron Faces The people who brought about the Enron debacle are slowly starting to pay for their crimes. |
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 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 February 3, 2006 |
Foolish Flashback: More With Jeff Skilling As the Enron trial of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling continues, here's part 2 of a 2001 interview with Skilling about the company's presence on the Internet as well as his views of the California power shortage. |
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... |
CFO April 1, 2003 Julia Homer |
They ARE Out to Get You So far, relatively few executives have gone to jail for white-collar crimes. That may be about to change. |
The Motley Fool March 3, 2004 Bill Mann |
WorldCom's Ebbers Surrenders WorldCom's CFO finally gives up the goods on the top man in an $11 billion fraud case. |
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. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Enron's Kenneth Lay: The Last Road Not Taken Ken Lay could have taken specific action that would have prevented bankruptcy and saved the jobs of thousands of Enron employees. This article compares Lay's choices with those facing Salomon chief executive John Gutfreund a decade earlier... |
Salon.com February 13, 2002 Ben Fritz |
Fritzkrieg! A Democratic senator lies about Enron to smear Bush... |
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. |
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? |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2002 John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
CFO Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
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 January 8, 2004 Bill Mann |
A Step Closer to Ken Lay? The first of Enron's top brass may be closing plea bargains with time in the slammer. |
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... |
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. |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2005 Bill Mann |
I Am NEVER Missing the Overstock Call Never dull, the Overstock.com conference call gave reason for conspiracy theorists everywhere to salivate. You know what? There's something to this thing. |
Fast Company September 2003 Andrew Moesel |
An Enron Story Nearly as Intriguing as the Saga Itself During the past year, the publishing world has anticipated a battle royal between competing accounts of Enron's demise from journalists variously credited with unearthing the scandal. Now, one publisher has quietly jumped the gun. |
InternetNews April 20, 2007 Michael Hickins |
'Justice is Served' to Nacchio Did the former Qwest CEO miss an opportunity to save himself some jail time? |
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... |
Salon.com January 31, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
Andrew Sullivan's selective Enron outrage The failed energy trader didn't just spend money on politicians. It gave handily to journalists, too. But why is Sullivan most angry about the one liberal who cashed in? |
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 February 19, 2004 Bill Mann |
Another Brick in the Enron Wall Prosecutors get their biggest prize to date: Enron executive Jeff Skilling. |
Trusts & Estates March 21, 2002 |
AICPA Campaigns To Repair Damage To Reputation Caused By Enron Scandal The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is trying to ensure that its reputation is not sullied by the recent scandal involving Enron and the role that improper financial reporting played in it. |