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ISSUE: November 15, 2009
Articles about Enron
Personal Profits
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8-1-2002
MESSAGE IN THE BABBLE
Would you take investment advice from anonymous tipsters called JanisJoplin298, GordGekko, or AlanGreeneggsnspam? Sounds risky. But according to James Felton, these nom-de-Web kibitzers may have foretold En...
Article Excerpts:
...these nom-de-Web kibitzers may have foretold
Enron
’s crash while Wall Street experts were...
... studied thousands of posts to Yahoo!’s
Enron
Message Board from 1997 to 2001. Excerpts from...
...“a compelling four-year history of
Enron
as told by apparent insiders.” Were...
Personal Profits
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6-1-2002
A PROXY PRIMER
Got the post-Enron jitters? Crave insight into the companies whose stock you hold? Then don’t throw away those snooze-inducing proxy statements. “If you don’t pay attention to these statements, you can get in trouble,”...
Article Excerpts:
...PROXY PRIMER Got the post-
Enron
jitters? Crave insight into the companies whose...
...says, she and her colleagues saw red flags at
Enron
in early 2000. Among the questions to ask: Are...
...“That’s how we figured
Enron
would have problems,” Minow says.
Personal Profits
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10-1-2003
A SOLID OPTION?
When Enron employees lost their retirement savings because the company stock tanked, the reputation of
EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLANS
tanked, too. Indeed, only about half of employees participate in their company’s p...
Article Excerpts:
...SOLID OPTION? When
Enron
employees lost their retirement savings because...
...SOLID OPTION? When
Enron
tanked, too. Indeed, only about half of...
...of reasons, actually. The problem at
Enron
wasn’t the plan, but the investment...
Your Name Here
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6-1-2001
Everything from stadiums to malls is tagged with corporate names. offers you a chance to get into the action. Pssssst. Wanna get in on the ground floor of a can’t-miss million-dollar business opportunity? Today’s your lucky day. Why? B...
Article Excerpts:
...the naming rights to my house. You got your
Enron
Field in Houston, your American Airlines Center...
Worth Repeating
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5-1-2002
"
Enron is indicative of nothing. There’s always people who do something they shouldn’t, and you’ll never be able to legislate against it.
"
—ALAN “ACE” GREENBERG
, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Bear, Stearns & Co...
Article Excerpts:
Tech Roi? Who's Counting?
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5-15-2003
During the dot.com boom, says Ray Trotta, businesses large and small spent billions on technology because ... well, they werent always sure why. They certainly didn't calculate an expected negative return on their tech investm...
Article Excerpts:
... Trotta believes the debacles at
Enron
, WorldCom, and other fallen companies presage...
Corporate Odd Couple
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4-1-2004
With so many recent business books detailing the sorry spate of corporate scandals, its refreshing and instructive to look inside an American company focused as much on community values and employee satisfaction as the bottom line. The CEO and the M...
Article Excerpts:
...for employees.” In a world of
Enron
scandals, that’s the type of...
Ego Maniacs
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4-1-2007
Being the meek, humble creatures that we are, we sat down with author Mathew Hayward to discuss his book Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris Is Wrecking Companies and Ca...
Article Excerpts:
...Kamen Segway creator Jeffrey Skilling former
Enron
CEO [image-article:4] Egos in Check Warren...
Office Life
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7-1-2002
CLEAN DESK, HEALTHY MIND On the radar screen of employment-threatening conditions — unfriendly new boss, competitors with killer app, Enron-itis — chances are most of us don’t see “
clutter
.” Maybe we should. Author Mike Nelson on...
Article Excerpts:
...new boss, competitors with killer app,
Enron
-itis — chances are most of us...
Ethical Dilemma
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9-15-2002
Amid corporate scandals, business schools ponder their teaching of ethics.
Article Excerpts:
... business profs and their students have discussed
Enron
’s collapse and Arthur...
Ideafest
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2-15-2003
Strategy. Design. People. Execution. The New Business Conversation Starts Here. Presenting three bright ideas.
SHEILA WELLINGTON President, Catalyst
When we look back on 2003, people will say that this was the year when b...
Article Excerpts:
...T. HARKER Dean, Wharton School In the post-
Enron
, post-WorldCom era, much has been written on...
A Bold “leap” For Leaders
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5-15-2004
A Bold "Leap" For LeadersFrequent readers of the business parable genre, in which Important Lessons are learned through the mistakes and successes of barely fictional characters, know these books often start with the protagonist, typically a harried...
Article Excerpts:
...stick figures. As Edg notes, in the wake of
Enron
, ImClone, WorldCom, and many more, maybe a...
Rock Stars Of Business
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11-1-2004
they've got rabid fans. they're publicity hounds. A single conversation with them can cost $100,000. No, they're not celebrities they're the ...
ROCK STARS OF BUSINESS
Article Excerpts:
...500 CEO Roundtable. Despite trumpeting dot-bomb
Enron
, Hamel’s star power hasn’t...
What To Expect When You're Sponsoring
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3-1-2005
Some say sports and business are a marriage made in heaven. But their offspring sponsorships of every conceivable kind can be as unpredictable and difficult to manage as real-life kids.
By Chris...
Article Excerpts:
...The Houston Astros paid $2 million to erase the
Enron
Field name off its baseball stadium. Poorly...