安然帝国梦 PIPE DREAMS: GREED, EGO AND DE

安然帝国梦 PIPE DREAMS: GREED, EGO AND DE

分享

作者: Robert Bryce 著

出版社: Oxford University Press USA

出版时间: 2002-01

版次: 1

ISBN: 9781586481384

定价: 69.00

装帧: 精装

开本: 其他

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 394页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>管理

　　Finally, an Enron book that actually explains what happened at Enron. Bryce, an Austin, Tex., journalist familiar with the energy and telecommunications industries, offers a colorful account of the most spectacular corporate self-destruction in American history. Tracing the company's history, he shows how deal-focused executives like CEO Jeff Skilling transformed a fiscally responsible energy supplier into an out-of-control trading firm. He describes risky practices, like "mark-to-market" accounting and shell corporations, in clear, concise language that doesn't confuse readers who don't have MBAs. The book relies heavily on good ol' boy colloquialisms (e.g., "If [George W.] Bush had been any more simpatico to Enron, he could've been charged with a misdemeanor under the state of Texas' buggery laws") but backs up every unusual assertion, revealing, for example, connections between Bush and Enron going back to the mid-1980s. Not that Democrats were innocent; there's also extensive coverage on what Enron got from government agencies during the Clinton administration. While the emphasis on sexual misconduct among the top brass and its correlation to the financial shenanigans is arguable, Bryce makes a reasonable case for former chairman Ken Lay's unwillingness to control his staff's behavior-and inability to lead by example. This isn't just the first book to make sense out of the debacle; it's a vivid cautionary tale about the consequences of the lurid excesses-personal and professional-of the recently ended economic bubble, where corporations and their employees were so obsessed with acquiring wealth they became "dumber than a box of hammers" about making-and saving-money.
  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.


  作者简介：


  Over the past sixteen years，Robert Bryce has written for a panoply 0f now-dead publica-tions including TaIk magazine and the TuIsa 7-ribufle．He’S even written for a few stilI publishing，including The New York times,The Guardian，Austin Chronicle，and Texas Observer．Bryce has been writing about En ron’S political activities since 1997 and covered the firm'S felecommunications and e-commerce ventu res th roughout 2001．


  Despite yea rs 0f muckraking，he has won no awards worth mentioning．An apia rist．he lives in Austin with his wife，three child ren，and a hyperactive bi rd dog rlamed Biscuit．　　 Author's Note

Introduction by Molly Ivins

1　The Job Fair

2　John Henry Kirby and the Roots of Enron

3　Buy or Be Bought

4　The Merger

5　The Lays Move to River Oaks

6　The Valhalla Fiasco

7　"The Smartest Son of a Bitch I've Ever Met"

8　Banking on the Gas Bank

9　Mark-to-Market Account-a-Rama

10　Enron Goes International: Teesside

11　The Big Shot Buying Binge

12　"Kenny Boy"

13　The Dabhol Debacle

14　OPIC: Sweet Subsidies

15　A Kinder, Gentler Enron

16　The Reign of Skilling

17　"A Pit of Vipers"

18　Cash Flow Problems, Part1

19　Chewco: The 3-Percent Solution

20　Sexcapades

21　The Family Lay

22　LJM1

23　Buying Off the Board

24　The Deal Diva

25　Enron's Waterworld

26　Hyping the Bandwidth Bubble

27　Andy Fastow Arrives... in River Oaks

28　Strippers and Stock Options

29　Casino Enron: Cash Flow Problems, Part 2

30　LJM2

31　The Big Five Versus the SEC

32　Derivatives Hocus-Pocus

33　Ken Rice: Missing in Action

34　Analysts Who Think

35　Air Enron

36　Skilling Says a Bad Word

37　George W. to the Rescue, Part1

38　Broadband Blues

39　Sleepless in Houston: Cash Flow Problems, Part 3

40　Sherron Watkins Saves Her Own Ass

41　George W. to the Rescue, Part2

42　You Gotta Have Art

43　Revenge of the Raptors

44　"An Outstanding Job as CFO"

45　Fastow Goes Bye-Bye

46　Posh PJ's

47　Greenspan Gets the Enron Prize

48　One Restatement Too Many

49　The Downgrade

50　The Bankruptcy

51　Epilogue: "Salvation Armani"

Notes

Bibliography

Index
内容简介:
　　Finally, an Enron book that actually explains what happened at Enron. Bryce, an Austin, Tex., journalist familiar with the energy and telecommunications industries, offers a colorful account of the most spectacular corporate self-destruction in American history. Tracing the company's history, he shows how deal-focused executives like CEO Jeff Skilling transformed a fiscally responsible energy supplier into an out-of-control trading firm. He describes risky practices, like "mark-to-market" accounting and shell corporations, in clear, concise language that doesn't confuse readers who don't have MBAs. The book relies heavily on good ol' boy colloquialisms (e.g., "If [George W.] Bush had been any more simpatico to Enron, he could've been charged with a misdemeanor under the state of Texas' buggery laws") but backs up every unusual assertion, revealing, for example, connections between Bush and Enron going back to the mid-1980s. Not that Democrats were innocent; there's also extensive coverage on what Enron got from government agencies during the Clinton administration. While the emphasis on sexual misconduct among the top brass and its correlation to the financial shenanigans is arguable, Bryce makes a reasonable case for former chairman Ken Lay's unwillingness to control his staff's behavior-and inability to lead by example. This isn't just the first book to make sense out of the debacle; it's a vivid cautionary tale about the consequences of the lurid excesses-personal and professional-of the recently ended economic bubble, where corporations and their employees were so obsessed with acquiring wealth they became "dumber than a box of hammers" about making-and saving-money.
  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.


  作者简介：


  Over the past sixteen years，Robert Bryce has written for a panoply 0f now-dead publica-tions including TaIk magazine and the TuIsa 7-ribufle．He’S even written for a few stilI publishing，including The New York times,The Guardian，Austin Chronicle，and Texas Observer．Bryce has been writing about En ron’S political activities since 1997 and covered the firm'S felecommunications and e-commerce ventu res th roughout 2001．


  Despite yea rs 0f muckraking，he has won no awards worth mentioning．An apia rist．he lives in Austin with his wife，three child ren，and a hyperactive bi rd dog rlamed Biscuit．　　
目录:
Author's Note

Introduction by Molly Ivins

1　The Job Fair

2　John Henry Kirby and the Roots of Enron

3　Buy or Be Bought

4　The Merger

5　The Lays Move to River Oaks

6　The Valhalla Fiasco

7　"The Smartest Son of a Bitch I've Ever Met"

8　Banking on the Gas Bank

9　Mark-to-Market Account-a-Rama

10　Enron Goes International: Teesside

11　The Big Shot Buying Binge

12　"Kenny Boy"

13　The Dabhol Debacle

14　OPIC: Sweet Subsidies

15　A Kinder, Gentler Enron

16　The Reign of Skilling

17　"A Pit of Vipers"

18　Cash Flow Problems, Part1

19　Chewco: The 3-Percent Solution

20　Sexcapades

21　The Family Lay

22　LJM1

23　Buying Off the Board

24　The Deal Diva

25　Enron's Waterworld

26　Hyping the Bandwidth Bubble

27　Andy Fastow Arrives... in River Oaks

28　Strippers and Stock Options

29　Casino Enron: Cash Flow Problems, Part 2

30　LJM2

31　The Big Five Versus the SEC

32　Derivatives Hocus-Pocus

33　Ken Rice: Missing in Action

34　Analysts Who Think

35　Air Enron

36　Skilling Says a Bad Word

37　George W. to the Rescue, Part1

38　Broadband Blues

39　Sleepless in Houston: Cash Flow Problems, Part 3

40　Sherron Watkins Saves Her Own Ass

41　George W. to the Rescue, Part2

42　You Gotta Have Art

43　Revenge of the Raptors

44　"An Outstanding Job as CFO"

45　Fastow Goes Bye-Bye

46　Posh PJ's

47　Greenspan Gets the Enron Prize

48　One Restatement Too Many

49　The Downgrade

50　The Bankruptcy

51　Epilogue: "Salvation Armani"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

查看详情

相关分类

Literature&Fiction文学与虚构 ScienceFiction&Fantasy科幻与玄幻 Romance浪漫小说 Mystery&Thrillers神秘与惊悚 Teens青少年读物 Biographies&Memoirs传记与自传 Comics&GraphicNovels动漫与绘画小说 ELT英语学习 Reference参考书 StandardTest标准考试 Business&Investing商业与投资 Self-Help励志自助 ManagementLeadership经营管理 Arts&Photography艺术与摄影

目前没有书店销售此书