Loren Fox

Enron (eBook, PDF)

The Rise and Fall

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"I'd say you were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fairtocarnival barkers. A carnie will at least tell you up front thathe's running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running whatpurported to be the seventh largest corporation inAmerica."-Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) to Enron CEO Kenneth Lay,Senate Commerce Science & Transportation's Subcommittee,Hearing on Enron, 2/12/02 The speed of Enron's rise and fall is truly astonishing and perhapsthe single most important story of corporate failure in thetwenty-first century. In Enron investigative journalist Loren Foxpromises readers nothing short of the most compelling andinsightful investigation into Enron's meteoric ascent-regarded byWall Street and the media as the epitome of innovation-and itsspectacular fall from grace. In a lively and authoritative manner,Fox discusses how the biggest corporate bankruptcy in Americanbusiness history happened, why for so long no one (except for anenlightened few) saw it coming, and what its impact will be onfinancial markets, the U.S. economy, U.S. energy policy, and thepublic for years to come. With access to many company insiders,Fox's intriguing account of this corporate debacle also provides anoverview of the corporate culture and business model that led toEnron's high-flying success and disastrous failure. The story ofEnron is one that will reverberate in global financial and energymarkets as well as in criminal and civil courts for years to come.Rife with all the elements of a classic thriller-scandal, dishonestaccounting, personal greed, questionable campaign contributions,suicide-Enron captures the essence of a company that went too fartoo fast.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: For Dummies
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780471432203
• Artikelnr.: 37301667

Autorenporträt

LOREN FOX is a former senior editor at Business 2.0, the award-winning business magazine, and a leading authority on business strategy. Previously, Fox was finance editor of Upside magazine. He also spent five and one-half years as editor and reporter for Dow Jones News Service, where he covered the energy industry and Enron. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Salon.com, and other media.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Time Line. 1 Pipeline to Profit. 2 Where the Money Is. 3 Major
Ambition. 4 Electrifying Opportunity. 5 Culture of Creativity? 6 The Energy
Buffet. 7 Taking the Plunge. 8 Enron Gets Wired. 9 Power and Glory. 10
California Dreamin'. 11 Power Overload. 12 Downward Spiral. 13 Racing the
Clock. 14 Endgame. Epilogue. Author's Note. Notes. Index.

Rezensionen

"Mr. Fox is a business writer based in New York who digs into how Andrew S. Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer, set up special purpose entities that ultimately helped cause the company's downfall...this one offers the most detailed explanation of Enron as a business." (New York Times, October 27, 2002)

" . . . Fox fills the void left by Lay and other Enron top dogs in swift, building-block fashion, producing a ground-up view of why the "Crooked E" colossus rose and fell. A sober and clear-eyed book, it's the more restrained of the two [compared to Pipe Dreams]. But it's not too restrained to pass up the chance to get in some good snarkfests over Enron's outsized egos and swagger-or remind us that its swagger is what most investors bought. . . . . Fox places the unspooling of Enron in its market-history context, and his book has gravitas . . . ." -- Barron's

". . . Fox is a business writer based in New York who digs into how Andrew S. Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer, set up special purpose entities that ultimately helped cause the company's downfall. Of the three books [including Pipe Dreams and Anatomy of Greed], this one offers the most detailed explanation of Enron as a business." -- New York Times

"Enron: The Rise and Fall is the latest and perhaps most impressive of the recent crop of books about the collapsed energy giant ... [Fox's] candid, in-depth examination of Enron's remarkable evolution, corporate culture and ultimate downfall is in itself remarkable for being both scrupulously detailed while remaining a clear and enjoyable read, even when dealing with the Byzantine complexities of the company's financial engineering." -- ERisk.com "Book of the Month" review

"...offers a candid examination of Enron's evolution, its culture, its rise and its downfall ...a clear and enjoyable read." ( City to Cities , July 2004)