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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... |
BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 |
Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off To Court We Go In an e-mail, Vinson & Elkins partner Joe Dilg boosted the spirits of lawyers toiling for Enron on Christmas Eve, 1997. An excerpt from his takeoff. |
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 |
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... |
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? |
U.S. Banker July 2007 Karen Krebsbach |
Next for Top Court: Securities Fraud Whether banks that help public firms commit fraud are also liable soon will be a question before the Supreme Court. Its decision will affect litigants in the still-simmering Enron case. |
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. |
CFO Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
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. |
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... |
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 |
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 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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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... |
CFO September 1, 2002 Lori Calabro |
I Told You So To controversial securities litigator Bill Lerach, the current wave of corporate fraud scandals was both inevitable and preventable. |
Salon.com January 28, 2002 Michael Drummond |
Class-action warrior When corporations run amok and accountants are shredding documents, who ya gonna call? Try lawyer Bill Lerach... |
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... |
Salon.com February 8, 2002 Jake Tapper |
Enron's last-minute bonus orgy Days before filing for bankruptcy, the scandal-ridden company rewarded some executives with million-dollar bonuses as laid-off workers were denied severance packages... |
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 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. |
CFO October 1, 2002 Tim Reason |
Reporting: See-Through Finance The market's distaste for complex financing could raise your company's cost of capital, even if you comply with new reporting rules. |
Entrepreneur November 2005 Jane Easter Bahls |
Shred Away? If your company doesn't have a document retention policy in place, ask your lawyer how to create one - then be consistent in following it. |
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. |
Knowledge@Wharton January 29, 2003 |
Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work? |
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. |
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 February 19, 2004 Bill Mann |
Another Brick in the Enron Wall Prosecutors get their biggest prize to date: Enron executive Jeff Skilling. |
BusinessWeek December 18, 2006 |
Corporate Justice Recent decisions in cases involving Enron, Computer Associates and WorldCom. |
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 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? |
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." |
CFO |
Pitt On The Spot Plus, trade-show taxes... split-dollar life insurance... our quarterly Global Confidence Survey... |
U.S. Banker March 2002 Roger Furman |
Trying Not To Pay Insurance companies are trying to wiggle out of paying Morgan Chase $1.1 billion, underscoring the dangers of using new financial instruments, or old ones in new ways. The likelihood is that the bank will win... |
BusinessWeek September 10, 2007 Hindo & Megerian |
Surviving Enron--And Thriving How oil and gas driller Mariner overcame the stigma and became a hot growth star. |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Egg On Enron Faces The people who brought about the Enron debacle are slowly starting to pay for their crimes. |
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? |
CFO February 1, 2006 Kate O'Sullivan |
The Best Defense In today's high-stakes legal environment, top white-collar attorneys are ready to defend the CFO. |
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. |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2011 David Lee Smith |
You Can Still Benefit From Solid Enron Management Enron and its shenanigans may be gone, but you can benefit from its remaining strength. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |