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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... |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2002 Jim Greer |
Drained of Energy Downtown Houston boasts the new $100 million Hobby Center for the Performing Arts and swanky new clubs, but the city's revitalized entertainment district can't divert the business community from the hole where the energy trading business -- and thousands of related jobs -- used to be. |
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 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. |
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... |
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... |
National Real Estate Investor December 4, 2003 |
Investor Group Bags Enron Building for $55.5M Houston's Enron Building has fetched $55.5 million from a group of investors. The 50-story glass tower was sold via private auction on Tuesday, but the sale must still be approved by a New York federal bankruptcy court judge. The investor group is led by a Houston cardiologist. |
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 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. |
FDIC FYI March 7, 2002 |
The Effects of the U.S. Economic Slowdown: Houston Forces driving the U.S. economy in 2001 intersected in the Houston metropolitan area. After racing ahead of the national economy early in the year, Houston faced weakening energy prices, layoffs at computer manufacturers and airlines, the bankruptcy of Enron, and a costly storm... |
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"... |
Fast Company May 2011 Margaret Downing |
O Pioneers! Reinvention, innovation, and cultivation make Houston our City of the Year for 2011. |
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... |
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. |
Fast Company May 2011 Jeff Chu |
The Evangelist Annise Parker was elected Houston's second female - and first lesbian - mayor in 2009. |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2004 Ralph Bivins |
Midtown Houston Ignites Real Estate Recovery The area is benefiting from a surge of deals related to the light rail line that opened early in 2004, among other factors. Residential, commercial, and industrial property are picking up. |
Salon.com January 25, 2002 Peter Wright |
In the belly of the Enron beast The stock price was tanking and the company was coming unraveled -- but Chairman Ken's weekly message to workers at Enron's posh London office was, "Everything's fine." We believed him... |
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 23, 2002 Christopher Ketcham |
Enron's human toll How employees of the energy trader got sucked into stock market euphoria -- and catastrophe... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
Fast Company December 2008 Ryan Blitstein |
Houston Launches Multimillion-Dollar Effort to Shield Its Economy Flush with oil-and-gas money but wary of a bust, the Texas metropolis launches a multimillion-dollar effort to recession-proof its economy. |
Salon.com February 5, 2002 Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
Inc. April 1, 2002 Mike Hofman |
Energy Futures Less than a month after Enron Corp. filed for Chapter 11, Elder and several partners founded Resource Alliance Group of Houston, a nonprofit incubator that advises the bearers of pink slips about how to start their own businesses... |
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 May 8, 2006 Matt Lynch |
The Magic Numbers Bus A Houston bus tour operator tries to cash in on the city's most famous business failure... The CFO as Kingpin... |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Jennifer Dawson |
Re-Energizing Houston Although the energy industry in Houston is enjoying a resurgence, the office sector continues to lag the broader economic recovery with a metro vacancy rate of nearly 18%. But increasingly the market appears poised for a major turnaround. |
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. |
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. |
Fast Company September 2003 Carleen Hawn |
The Women of Enron : A New Calling Deborah Perrotta was an executive assistant for 25 years. When Enron fell, she lost her job -- and found a new voice. |
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... |
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 Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
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. |
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... |
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 September 30, 2010 |
Hard Choices: Annise Parker America's first lesbian big-city mayor on her sexuality, receiving death threats, and struggling with the public part of the job. |
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. |
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... |
BusinessWeek February 6, 2006 |
No More Brush-Offs How former Enron accountant Lisa Bromiley Meier finally got past the "Enron" on her resume. |
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? |
Salon.com January 15, 2002 Julian Borger |
A corporate welfare state nightmare The Enron scandal exposes how the U.S. political system is bought and paid for... |
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. |
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 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 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. |
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? |