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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Enron, whose decades of deceit ended in bankruptcy, almost suffered the same fate just two years after it was formed.
Chapter 3: Enron was radically transformed once it found its visionary.
Chapter 4: Rebecca Mark was Enron’s public face, and the force ultimately behind its toxic deal-making culture.
Chapter 5: With Jeff Skilling as president, trading became Enron’s main business, bringing with it a culture of risk-taking and deceit.
Chapter 6: Andrew Fastow devised financial structures that helped Enron hide its debt, while making himself wealthy in the process.
Chapter 7: Jeff Skilling believed Enron’s future lay in electricity and broadband, but both endeavors ultimately failed.
Chapter 8: Analysts adored Enron, even though many of them knew the company was concealing its debt.
Chapter 9: Concerns about Enron’s financial health surfaced in 2000 and were intensified by unusual shifts within the company.
Chapter 10: Enron ultimately collapsed under the weight of its massive debt and was then forced to declare bankruptcy.
Chapter 11: Ken Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, Andrew Fastow, and other Enron executives were ultimately convicted of fraud and sentenced to prison.
Description
The Smartest Guys in the Room (2003) tells the remarkable tale of energy trader Enron – once a poster child for market innovation on Wall Street – and its dramatic fall from stratospheric heights. These blinks detail a gripping story of financial deceit, while shedding light on the personalities that built Enron’s corporate culture and set it up for disaster.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone hoping to learn more about the cataclysmic downfall of Enron
- People interested in the widespread use of fraudulent business practices
- Any business leader, executive, CEO, analyst or accountant