Enron was considered to be one of the largest growing company’s in Texas. The company was also ranked among the top Fortune 500 companies, but that was extremely short lived when the company collapsed under a tremendous amount of debt. This debt was hidden through a difficult and high-tech scheme of off-balance-sheet partnerships. Due to […]
Toxic masculinity is the cultural ideal of manliness, where strength, money, and aggression are everything, while emotions, failure, and supposed feminine traits are considered weaknesses (O’Malley). James Foley’s Glengarry Glen Ross and Lucy Prebble’s Enron deeply explore the impact that toxic masculinity has on corporate culture, and the repercussions that it causes within society. In […]
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Get startedAccording to Frank Partnoy’s article: Enron and the Derivatives World, Enron structured itself into a derivative trading firm. A Derivative is defined as a financial security instrument whose payoff is linked to another, previously issued security. Derivatives involve the buying, selling, or transferring of risk. Derivatives can be traded in two ways: through unregulated markets […]
Analyzing Netflix’s Growth and Enron’s Demise Using Schein’s Organizational Theory When Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded Netflix in 1997, Blockbuster was humming along as the largest video rental company in the United States with a large physical footprint and excellent brand recognition. As a retailer at the time, qualities like these were generally indicative […]
The bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation, an American energy company based in Houston, Texas, and the disintegration of Arthur Andersen was exposed in October 2001. At that time, Enron was a big audit failure company which fell down too fast. Through this paper, the purpose is to analyze the reasons and aspects that took the […]
Enron was formed in 1985 as a result of a merger between two companies. The company was first named HNG InterNorth, after the two companies that merged, Houston Natural Gas Corporation and InterNorth, Inc. In 1986, the company was renamed Enron. After being renamed, Enron was known as an energy supplier and trader. In 1990, […]
Background on the history of Enron: Enron was an American Gas Company that was originally called Natural Gas Company in the early 1930’s. InterNorth was a holding company that was located in Nebraska and in 1979 purchased Natural Gas Company. In 1985, Enron was born following the merger of InterNorth and Houston Natural Gas. Following […]
The research I conducted throughout the semester was an event that happened on the day I was born it’s about the Enron Company, an American energy-trading company based in Houston, Texas that filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Dec 2, 2001 and ended on October 6, 2002. This event caught my attention because it […]
The documentary The Smartest Guys in the Room talks about the corrupt practices by executives of the seventh most important corporation in the United States named Enron and how this led to its bankruptcy. In the beginning this company was only dedicated to the energy business, however, after its consolidation in 1985 with Houston Natural […]
