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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

Despite its infamous financial chicanery, it still appeared to be a viable, profitable firm. At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation.

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The Rise of the General Counsel

Harvard Business Review

The general counsel, not the senior partner in the law firm, is now often the go-to counselor for the CEO and the board on law, ethics, public policy, corporate citizenship, and country and geopolitical risk. . — and increasingly in Europe and Asia — are not mentioned: 1.