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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. And thirty years later, if you're going to read only one book on Watergate, that's still the one. 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.

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. 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. Now, McLean and Elkind have investigated much deeper, to offer the definitive book about the Enron scandal and the fascinating people behind it.

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. 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. 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. Smartest Guys in the Room is a story of greed, arrogance, and deceit—a microcosm of all that is wrong with American business today. Above all, it's a fascinating human drama that will prove to be the authoritative account of the Enron scandal.

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480ページ
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英語
出版社

Portfolio Trade
発売日

2004/9/28
対象読者年齢

18 歳以上
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14.3 x 2.74 x 21.46 cm
ISBN-10

9781591840534
ISBN-13

978-1591840534
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Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind are Fortune senior writers. McLean, a former investment banking analyst for Goldman Sachs, lives in New York City. Her March 2001 article in Fortune, "Is Enron Overpriced?," was the first in a national publication to openly question the company's dealings.

Peter Elkind is an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of The Death Shift. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Fortune, and Texas Monthly.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1591840538
出版社 ‏ : ‎ Portfolio Trade; Reprint版 (2004/9/28)
発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2004/9/28
言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
ペーパーバック ‏ : ‎ 480ページ
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781591840534
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591840534
対象読者年齢 ‏ : ‎ 18 歳以上
寸法 ‏ : ‎ 14.3 x 2.74 x 21.46 cm

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The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind digs into one of the most infamous and largest corporate business scandals in America’s history. This was such a wild ride. Everything from corporate greed, mismanagement, cowardice, rivalry, a toxic work culture, and a need to constantly prove profitability to the public led to one fraud after another until Enron was literally built on a house of cards, or, to be more exact, on a house, nay, a mountain of debt. All this was hidden from the public investors they were supposed to protect, while executives were profiting from the soaring stock price.

“So you take the dog and paint its feet yellow and its fur white and you paste an orange plastic beak on its nose, and then you say to your accountants, ‘This is a duck! Don’t you agree that it’s a duck?’ And the accountant say, ‘Yes, according to the rules, this is a duck.’ Everybody knows that it’s a dog, not a duck, but that doesn’t matter, because you’ve met the rules for calling it a duck.” - Former Enron employee

Back in the early 2000s, when it all came crashing down, I remember only a few bits and pieces here and there. Mainly, I saw on television old white guys in the headlines dominating news channels regarding a business scandal and fraud. I failed to realize or feel the impact. Decades later, with more financial knowledge and investments made in the stock market, I wanted to finally revisit this saga and learn just how it all went down. It definitely blew my mind.

“I’ve thought about this a lot, and all that matters is money. You buy loyalty with money. This touchy-feely stuff isn’t as important as cash. That’s what drives performance.” - Jefferey Skilling’s conversation with Terry Thorn

A tremendous effort has obviously been made by the authors to untangle the Enron mess after they imploded to give us the inside scoop on how this scandal went down. Although it is a fairly big book, it clearly deserves every page, in my opinion, as it slowly and methodically laid out from the very start of Enron to its ultimate demise. There are a lot of players and actions involved. Although no CPA myself, I was shocked to at least have understood the mark-to-market strategy of reporting year-end earnings, especially how it was used to game the system. Although there were many other accounting tricks used to commit fraud, it basically came down to hiding losses on their balance sheet and presenting itself every quarter to investors, analysts, and Wall Street as the coolest company ever in hopes of raising its stock price.

In fact, it was anything but effortless; there was nothing at Enron that required more effort, more cleverness, more deceit-more everything-than hitting its quarterly earnings targets. - Book authors

The last few chapters of the book were particularly exciting and kept me reading all night. The inevitable crash was coming. You knew in hindsight, so you just kept waiting for it until it finally started to unravel, and it was like watching a car crash in slow motion, but only because we now know the full story and extent of the problem and how Enron got there. I can’t help but wonder how things would have turned out if Enron weren’t as crazed about boasting their stock price and actually reporting true earnings as well as executing on their actual ideas. Would they have been in the coveted top 10 position in the S&P500 index today? They genuinely had some good ideas and were truly ahead of their time, but they didn’t have the patience to see things through, not to mention a host of other issues as well.

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Brilliant book, dives into exhaustive detail. Sketches out the characters complexity really well. Worth a read to understand some of the behaviour flaws that ruin a giant corporation.

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Muy interesante libro que refleja la caída de un imperio energético (y financiero) así como el final de una era. Si no fuera porque los protagonistas vulneraron sistemáticamente la ley con muchas de sus decisiones (y su desmedida ambición), casi se podría sentir admiración por ellos. No todo vale en esta vida para ganar y este libro sirve un ejemplo paradigmático.

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It is easy to read, even for people with no financial background. I sometimes miss a little more detail about their accounting practices but understand that this might be tough to read for others. All in all, it explains very well what and why things went so terribly wrong with Enron.

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