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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...   |
| 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
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
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. |
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
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 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. |
| 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. |
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
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"... |
U.S. Banker
January 2002 |
Banks Look Smart -- by Contrast Sometimes banks don't look so dumb -- at least compared with some hot-shot stocks, ranging from Enron to the once high-flying dot-com companies. A litmus test may be how much companies pay for naming rights to sports arenas... |
Mother Jones
Mar/Apr 2000
Louis Dubose & Carmen Coiro |
Don't Cry for Bush, Argentina George W. may not recall the names of world leaders, but when it comes to foreign affairs, he knows the value of his own family's name. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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
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
January 17, 2002
Damien Cave |
401 reasons to love Enron Employees of the energy trader are furious at the loss of their life savings, but the debacle could finally be the catalyst for long-needed retirement fund reform... |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
Fast Company
September 2003
Jennifer Reingold |
The Women of Enron: The Best Revenge Regrets? Hardly. For Sherron Watkins, life since Enron imploded has gotten a whole lot better. |
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... |
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? |
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
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. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
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
March 12, 2002
Brendan Nyhan |
Another Lincoln bedroom farce, Part 2 Possibly the biggest political myth of the year just keeps on growing... |
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. |
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. |
CFO
Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
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
February 13, 2002
Ben Fritz |
Fritzkrieg! A Democratic senator lies about Enron to smear Bush... |
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? |
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. |
| 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... |
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
January 12, 2004 |
Egg On Enron Faces The people who brought about the Enron debacle are slowly starting to pay for their crimes. |
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
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." |
BusinessWeek
December 18, 2006 |
Corporate Justice Recent decisions in cases involving Enron, Computer Associates and WorldCom. |
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? |
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. |
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... |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Ken Lay's Startling Youa-Culpa The former Enron CEO blames the media and short sellers for Enron's demise. How convenient. Don't let this dribble provide an excuse for ordinary investors to toss away due diligence in favor of conspiracy theories. |
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... |
