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Best Post: “Blame it on the Beard”… More Women Should be on Wallstreet Now this is a beard: Other Winners!
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Tagged Best of Blog, Blog, Blog Council, Enron, higher education, Karl Marx
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Revisiting Enron
While I was searching through Bloginization I came across an interesting post that talked about the failures of Enron and a concept called “normal accidents.” The title of this post is called Enron = normal … accident, that is. I found … Continue reading
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Tagged Enron, Fraud, normal accident, economic failures, business failures
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Too Many Ethics Cases to Count
I was on the New York Times online earlier today and an article heading caught my eye. The article is called “S.E.C. Refers Ex-Counsel’s Actions on Madoff to Justice Dept.” and it is about the Madoff scandal and the ethics … Continue reading
AIG, the government, and more…
After reading the AIG case and presenting on it last week, I have a hard time understanding how companies can keep at it the way they are these days with the mindset that they will never have any problems or … Continue reading
Stupid Credit Agencies
I feel like credit agencies should receive more blame and public criticism for the collapse of Enron and AIG. The credit agencies did not do their job adequately and gave these companies a triple A rating when they did not … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cases (Real World), Class, Ethics
Tagged AIG, Credit Agencies, Enron, Ethics
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AIG vs. Enron
When reading this week’s case, I could not help but notice the similarity between the downfall of AIG and the collapse of Enron from last week. Enron had, in my opinion, a poor business model to begin with as was … Continue reading
Posted in Cases (Real World), Ethics, Uncategorized
Tagged accounting, AIG, Enron, Ethics, failure, policy
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Sarbanes-Oxley/Enron/2008 Crisis
Sarbanes-Oxley probably saves a lot more companies from going under and countless people in America from losing their jobs. It’s funny that we talked about this and Enron in class because shortly after I had a discussion with my guidance counselor who worked for … Continue reading
Conflicts of Interest
After reading the The Rise and Fall of Enron (B), it is remarkable how potential issues were just glossed over when it came senior management officials. Andrew Fastow (CFO) was the most obvious example of this in his role in … Continue reading
Enron and Sarbanes Oxley
After class on Thursday I did some extra reading up on Enron. It is pretty amazing that in this day people can get away with “creative accounting” and effectively take down such a well established, 6 time winner of most … Continue reading
Posted in Cases (Real World), Ethics, For Fun, Uncategorized
Tagged Enron, idiots, Sarbanes Oxley
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Failed Strategies of Enron
Enron was formed in 1985 when two gas pipeline companies merged. They had a rough start with many near death experiences, but finally found their place in an innovative new market. Enron pioneered the development of large-scale energy trading and used fixed … Continue reading
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Tagged bankruptcy, Enron, failed corporate strategy
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Too Big to Fail?
At first, it seemed like Enron was too big to fail. It had all the tools needed to be a successful business in any emerging markets: always looking for ways to make changes, innovative ideas, exceptionally intelligent employees, Risk Management … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Enron, Fail, Fraud, monopoly, natural gas, Scandals
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Enron
I would like to blog about how Enron was able to submit false financial statements for so many years. Since Enron was such a large player in the energy market, I would think their financial statements would be analyzed the … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, Credit Agencies, Enron, Ethics, financial reports, steroids
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First Blog Ideas
This week, I am just aiming for you to get a post up on the blog. At a minimum, write one paragraph about some topic or idea from the class. Here is a little list of questions I had of … Continue reading
