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2. Here’s One Way to Tell if a Company is Overpaying its CEO
  
  Explore MarketWatch Apr 14 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... After the accounting scandals of the early 2000s, including the one that caused the collapse of energy giant Enron, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002. That act included a provision called Regulation G requi...
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3. Whistleblowers Promise to Make 2019 a Year of Reckoning in the Workplace
  
  Explore MarketWatch Mar 4 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ess of the sweeping reforms that were put in place to hold the securities industry more accountable in a post-Enron world can serve as a road map for the next phase of the #metoo movement. Perhaps examination will lead t...
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4. Companies Need to Pay More Attention to Everyday Unethical Behavior
  
  Explore Harvard Business Review Mar 1 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...e witnessed many large-scale corporate scandals –think Worldcom’s accounting fraud, Citibank’s near-collapse, Enron’s bankruptcy – in which pervasive rule violations by both managers and lower-level employees led to mass...
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5. Banning Buybacks Would Backfire and Lead to More Companies Going Private - Canaccord
  
  Explore CNBC.com Feb 12 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...o years, since a GOP Senate would not endorse it. Reynolds noted that after shoddy accounting at WorldCom and Enron were exposed, and their off-balance sheet financing revealed, regulators moved to limit the use of the s...
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6. How to Report Accounting Fraud and Earn an SEC Whistleblower Award
  
  Explore National Law Review Feb 6 2019
  
  ... U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was abruptly reminded of the dangers of accounting fraud after Enron and WorldCom collapsed within months of each other. In the years following these corporate accounting sc...
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7. PG&E, the Nation’s Biggest Utility Company, Files for Bankruptcy After California Wildfires
  
  Explore The Washington Post Jan 29 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...nment officials and regulators for California’s energy crisis, part of the fallout from the scandal involving Enron. BlueMountain Capital Management, a key PG&E investor that was outspoken against the company’s earlier s...
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8. Corporate Governance And The Widening Gyre
  
  Explore forbes.com Jan 14 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ..., only a few examples come to mind: the Great Recession of 2008; the combination of terrorist attacks and the Enron fraud in late 2001; and (perhaps) the political and economic uncertainty following the 2017 inauguration...
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9. The Ghosn Effect on Corporate Governance
  
  Explore forbes.com Nov 27 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ion. Remember that the concept of the whistleblower and up the ladder internal reporting has its roots in the Enron whistleblower and specific provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Similarly, a board may wish to revisit ...
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10. Whistleblowers: Endangered But Vital To The Corporate World
  
  Explore forbes.com Nov 20 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...hem to gain a form of legal legitimacy. “I am encouraged about these new laws,” Sherron Watkins, known as the Enron whistleblower, told us. “They now reward a bounty program to whistleblowers for financial matters. And t...
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11. A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled
  
  Explore wsj.com Oct 22 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...attle. He made his money placing bets on price swings in the natural-gas market, first as an energy trader at Enron, then at his own hedge fund... ...
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12. Elon’s Enablers: Tesla’s Submissive Board May Be As Big A Risk As An Erratic CEO
  
  Explore forbes.com Sep 14 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  .... “The board is completely negligent here,” Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management told Forbes. “Enron while it was collapsing did not have turnover as high as this company does. If you go back 18 months it'...
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13. Jeffrey Skilling, Former Enron CEO, Released from Alabama Prison to Halfway House
  
  Explore boardprospects.com Aug 31 2018 BoardNews
  
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14. What GE's Board Could Have Done Differently
  
  Explore Harvard Business Review Jul 17 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ... a 401(k) plan, where participants bear the entire risk of subpar investment performance. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S. companies dropped employer stock as an investment option in their 401(k) plans. Other...
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15. In Europe, Misbehaving CEOs Pay Millions in Fines and Go to Jail, and We Need to Start Doing the Same in the US
  
  Explore Business Insider May 17 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...t punishment as being entirely legitimate. Now try to think of a similar case in the U.S. It's not easy. Even Enron's Ken Lay, who managed to destroy more than $60 billion in value at a company built on fraud, had his co...
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16. Make Board Members Follow Company Conduct Codes
  
  Explore Bloomberg Oct 18 2017 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ers in Charlottesville, Virginia, included "some very fine people," doing so became the corporate norm. After Enron and other corporate blowups, more investors started looking to boards for clues of problems ahead. And a...
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