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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

There has been a dramatic shift in mentality, and it doesn''t take much to work out the date on which this happened: September 11, 2001. But the technology alone isn''t the problem. Much has been said about what happened in the aftermath of that tragic event.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

After that the Bush administration and a Republican-majority Congress decided in 2001 to effectively set paygo aside. In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years. And there's the Budget Control Act of 2011. Plus, it turned out there was a recession in the works. So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire.

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