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Salon.com
February 20, 2002
Bryan Keefer |
Coming up Enron No matter what the issue, politicians are throwing around the name of the bankrupt energy giant in a crude attempt to score political points...   |
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... |
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
February 13, 2002
Ben Fritz |
Fritzkrieg! A Democratic senator lies about Enron to smear Bush... |
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
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. |
| 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
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. |
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... |
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
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. |
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. |
CFO
Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003
Gene Koretz |
An Economist's Call to Arms Prizewinning economist and columnist Paul Krugman is convinced that few Americans, if they fully understood Bush's radical agenda, would choose to jettison cherished institutions and go it alone in today's highly uncertain economic environment. A review of his new book, The Great Unraveling |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
CRM
May 1, 2006
Jessica Sebor |
Social Responsibility: Are Companies Faking It? In the wake of the Enron scandal, the message most people got was not to get caught. |
Salon.com
June 2, 2001
Cliff Rothman |
In defense of Andrew Sullivan Whatever discrepancies exist between his public words and his private actions, the attempt to smear him sexually is a vendetta masquerading as journalism... |
Reason
April 2006
W. James Antle |
Thunder on the Center-Right Book Review: Just as the war articles show little sense of the public's growing doubts, the Standard's arguments about domestic policy seem to be losing their persuasive force. The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005, edited by William Kristol. |
Reason
April 2002
Mike Lynch |
Political Returns Washington wants to manage your 401(k) account... |
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. |
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... |
Fast Company
September 2003
Carleen Hawn |
The Women of Enron: A Separate Peace Once one of the most powerful women in business, Rebecca Mark now sits on a ranch with her Black Angus cattle and her thoughts. |
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
June 26, 2002
Damien Cave |
Foxes guarding the chicken coop President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron's derivatives trading instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place. |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
February 1, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Houston, we have a problem The city where deregulation is king is in Enron denial -- and won't let go of its wildcatting ways... |
BusinessWeek
December 18, 2006 |
Corporate Justice Recent decisions in cases involving Enron, Computer Associates and WorldCom. |
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. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Arvind Subramanian |
Economist as Crusader An interview with economist Paul Krugman whose Age of Diminished Expectations and Peddling Prosperity filled the gap between the boringly descriptive genre of up-and-down economics books and sensationalist and shallow airport economics books. |
Salon.com
July 12, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Woe is me-zine After bemoaning attacks from the "far left," Andrew Sullivan returns a sponsorship from the pharmaceutical industry... |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
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. |
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? |
Salon.com
March 4, 2002
Anthony York |
Legislating against stupidity Congressional efforts to prevent future Enron-style 401K blowouts will hurt more than they help... |
| 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... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Abuse of Power: How Manipulative Trading Undermined Energy Deregulation At its height, Enron dominated -- and arguably even helped create -- the energy trading industry. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that Enron's demise is creating as many waves as its successes. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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 |
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... |
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. |
