Smartest Guys in the Room is a story of greed, arrogance, and deceit-a microcosm of all that is wrong with American business today. It reveals as never before major characters such as Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow, as well as lesser known players like Cliff Baxter and Rebecca Mark.
Drawing on a wide range of unique sources, the book follows Enron’s rise from obscurity to the top of the business world to its disastrous demise. Meticulously researched and character driven, Smartest Guys in the Room takes the reader deep into Enron’s past-and behind the closed doors of private meetings. McLean and Elkind act more or less as additional narrators. The story is told party by a narrator (Peter Coyote), but even more by talking-head interviews with reporters and insiders who know the story. Now, McLean and Elkind have investigated much deeper, to offer the definitive book about the Enron scandal and the fascinating people behind it. Its based on the book The Smartest Guys In The Room: the Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.
Enron used special purpose vehicles (SPVs), or special purposes. Based on the best-selling book The Smartest Guys in the Room by Fortune reporters. Enrons leadership fooled regulators with fake holdings and off-the-books accounting practices. But that was before Fortune published an article by McLean that asked a seemingly innocent question: How exactly does Enron make money? From that point on, Enron’s house of cards began to crumble. Synopsis: Is the inside story of one of history greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America’s 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. Remarkably, it was just two years ago that Enron was thought to epitomize a great New Economy company, with its skyrocketing profits and share price. Today, Enron is the biggest business story of our time, and Fortune senior writers Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind are the new Woodward and Bernstein. The book is not only about the Enron scandal, but also describes the authors effort in following the developing story as it happened. And thirty years later, if you’re going to read only one book on Watergate, that’s still the one.
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There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President’s Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron.
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