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Enron

October 2022

  • exterior sign and offices of McKinsey and Company, No.1 Jermyn Street, London

    Book of the day
    When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm – review

    Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe’s devastating investigation into the consulting firm uncovers a story of secrecy, delusion and untold harm

March 2021

  • Logos of the big four accountancy firms

    Big business, accounting and accountability

    Letters: David Selby argues for a less cozy relationship between large companies and their auditors

August 2019

  • Lucy Prebble

    Poison and politics… Lucy Prebble puts the Litvinenko case on stage

    The Enron playwright talks about retelling the murder of the KGB whistleblower

June 2018

  • illustration: glasses revealing red number on financial reports

    The long read
    How to get away with financial fraud

    The long read: Some of the world’s biggest scandals have gone unspotted for years. The nature of fraud is that it works outside our field of vision

May 2018

  • Cranes stands idle above the Midland Metropolitan Hospital site, operated by Carillion Plc, in Smethwick, on 18 Janaury 2018, after the construction company filed for liquidation

    Carillion and Britain’s modern kleptocracy

    Letters: Readers respond to the collapse of Carillion and offer ways that the excesses of Britain’s fat cats could be curbed

September 2016

  • Neelie Kroes

    Bahamas leaks
    Ex-EU commissioner Neelie Kroes failed to declare directorship of offshore firm

    Leak of files from Bahamas corporate register reveals former head of Europe’s antitrust watchdog was recruited by UAE venture set up to buy Enron assets

February 2016

  • fifth amendment Martin Shkreli Michaele Tareq Salahi

    Pleading the fifth: five notorious times people refused to give answers

    Martin Shkreli invoked the amendment Thursday, refusing to answer questions on why he raised the price of lifesaving drugs 5,000% – and he’s not alone

December 2015

  • Stefan Stern

    Years after Enron, business is still behaving badly

    Stefan Stern
    Without serious punishment for breaking the rules, businesses from Volkswagen to Sports Direct have felt free to continue irresponsible practices

October 2015

  • VW glitch

    'They may be fighting like rats in a sack' – how to survive a VW-style corporate crisis

    What’s it like to live through a corporate disaster like the one engulfing Volkswagen? From Enron to Kids Company, Northern Rock to the News of the World, former employees recall their feelings of excitement, isolation and despair

September 2015

  • Relatives mourning victims of the Bhopal tragedy in 1984.

    Corporate scandals and how (not) to handle them

    After a disastrous week for VW, we look back at 30 years of business disasters and their cost in lives, money and reputations

July 2015

  • Enron's Houston headquarters.

    The world's biggest accounting scandals

    Toshiba has joined the long list of corporate financial scandals, which include BCCI, Enron and Olympus

November 2014

  • US Money Enron whistleblower Sherron Watkins

    US money blog
    Are financial whistleblowers worth it? Study says yes – to the tune of $21.27bn

    A new study finds that programs and monetary rewards designed to encourage whisteblowers can be a windfall for the government

September 2014

  • Tesco trolleys

    Every little helps Tesco’s profits

    Letters: Despite all that has been said and done, what has happened at Tesco shows this systemic problem remains

June 2013

  • Jeffrey Skilling

    Enron's Jeffrey Skilling sees jail sentence reduced to 14 years

    Former chief executive could be released before the end of the decade after agreement with prosecutors and forfeiting $40m

July 2012

  • End the light-touch response to financial crimes

    Letters: Unless the state is serious about criminalising their behaviour, they are not stupid enough to ditch a lucrative cash cow

May 2012

  • Samuel West, Tim Pigott-Smith and Amanda Drew in the play Enron

    Rupert Murdoch: a dangerous blindness

    Margaret Heffernan
    Margaret Heffernan: At News Corp Rupert Murdoch chose to surround himself with uncritical loyalists. He can't now blame others

February 2012

  • lucy prebble

    Lucy Prebble: 'Gaming is an artform just like theatre'

    Enron playwright Lucy Prebble became hooked on computer games as a child. And, she says, they are as well crafted as works for film, TV or the stage

October 2011

  • Sunny Delight

    From New Coke to Consignia: brands consigned to the dustbin of history

    BlackBerry is not the first firm to suffer a serious brand meltdown. Here are some other memorable examples

June 2011

  • Mitt Romney, possible Republican presidential candidate for 2012

    Wall Street and Republican lawmakers thwart US financial reforms

    Timothy Geithner told a Washington committee that Wall Street banks were spending a lot of money to 'erode' Dodd-Frank Act

December 2010

  • Enron theatre production

    George Clooney ditches British cast for Enron film

    UK play's author will write screenplay but West End director and cast are dropped as Hollywood snaps up stage success
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