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...Yet a disregard for governance takes you into dangerous territory, as scandals from Enron to Carillion to the Post Office have proved. There is also a political risk....
...Job moves Meta has added Broadcom chief Hock Tan and billionaire philanthropist and former Enron trader John Arnold to its board of directors....
...In 2001, the forum held a session on the “shape of the 21st century corporation” — addressed by Kenneth Lay, the CEO of Enron....
...No fewer than four documentaries — The Corporation (2003), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) and Inside Job (2010) — addressed the pervasive amorality at the heart...
...You see, EY is structured as a partnership rather than a corporation. So Di Sibio couldn’t just make a decree, and then that was it....
...When I started in February 2001, Enron’s “smartest guys in the room” were on their way to the engineering the biggest crash of the young century....
...Since the war began, international corporations including Renault, Shell and McDonald’s have marked a retreat from Russia....
...It is the reincarnation of Enron Oil and Gas, which was probably the most carbon-intensive part of the Enron, the scandal magnet energy giant bankrupted in 2001....
...To prove it we are told that “on his desk he displayed a pair of brass replica testicles that a former employee had given to memorialise big gains from the bankruptcies of Enron, WorldCom, and Conseco”....
...More than two decades later, being “the guy that called Enron” still carries a certain weight....
...Companies listed in the US have been required to submit to PCAOB inspections of their audits since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was introduced in 2002 in the wake of the Enron scandal....
...“It is troubling that the most powerful corporations are able to keep matters out of court when individual people are not,” Mr Garrett said....
...For insights, I speak to Lucy Prebble, who has depicted the working world in stage plays such as Enron and as a writer for the ongoing HBO series Succession....
...A practised bloodhound, Gibney has done his best work by pulling back the curtain on clandestine operations — the Church of Scientology, disgraced corporation Enron....
...She saw so many companies come and go, defaulting on their debts, that she only extended credit for purchases to the most established corporations....
...Our funds have an investment in Sumitomo Corporation which, through its interests in a range of businesses from copper mining to construction should benefit from any economic recovery....
...The mission statement of Enron, the US energy group hit by a corruption scandal in 2001, contained words such as “integrity” and “excellence”....
...The Enron scandal brought an early reckoning for CEO excess....
...The PCAOB was created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in response to the Enron accounting scandal, the collapse of its auditor Arthur Andersen and a series of other financial scandals that emerged when...
...“Purdue is not going to be involved with an Enron Corporation that will screw you over,” he said. He took out an ISA for $33,000 to cover his tuition fees after exhausting federally-subsidised loans....
...Glass Lewis, which was established in 2003, is owned by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and Alberta Investment Management Corporation....
...The names Carillion, Lehman Brothers and Enron are as notable for the nature of their demise as they were for construction, banking or energy....
...Right now, business schools, and even corporations, risk resting on their laurels....
...Not to mention that the more stringent Sarbanes-Oxley Act was introduced in response to the Enron scandal....
...Things had got so bad that one contemporary of Mr Dimon describes 2002 as a “near-death experience” for JPMorgan, after it sustained vast losses on collapsed energy group Enron and other highly leveraged...
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