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ESPIONAGE. FRAUD. POLITICS. "This book is one of the most chilling and compelling business stories I've ever read. Lynn Brewer lived the Enron story, and in a deeply personal, yet highly professional way, lets us peek into what can go horribly wrong in a publicly-traded business. There are some great lessons for leadership in this tale." Oren Harari, Author, The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell "In this incredibly lucid and juicy account of Enron's shenanigans, Lynn Brewer courageously reveals what went on behind the scenes. What she reports will shock the financial press who voted Enron "the most innovative and admired" five years in a row. It will shame research analysts and investors wh...
With Risk and Ruin, Gavin Benke places Enron's fall within the larger history of late twentieh-century American capitalism. In many ways, Benke argues, Enron was emblematic of the transitions that characterized the era.
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Over the last twenty years of the 20th Century, set in Georgia and primarily in southern California, Patrick Kirk writes a fictional account of the lives of Bryan and Carolyn Jenkins as they traverse the “yuppies gotta have it all” lifestyle. The story is in some ways a high tech suspense thriller; part romance, part spy novel. It is about business, mentorship, career changes and their effects on a marriage and having a family in the 90’s. It’s also about corporate corruption and greed and how the PC software revolution assisted in the decline in American business values. It’s a dissection of the Enron-driven rolling electrical blackouts and the company’s ultimate demise. Some of the story lines are imagined after people, places, events and technology encountered by the author during his thirty years in the PC software business.
Resisting Corporate Corruption The frequently used textbook is now in its 4th edition and includes new case studies on Tesla, VW, Nikola, WeWork, and Theranos. Resisting Corporate Corruption teaches business ethics in a manner very different from the philosophical and legal frameworks that dominate graduate schools. The book offers twenty-seven case studies and eight essays that cover a full range of business practices, controls, and ethics issues. The essays discuss the nature of sound financial controls, root causes of the Financial Crisis, contemporary ethics challenges like ‘Fake it Till You Make It,’ and the evolving nature of whistleblower protections. The cases are framed to instr...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, PAISI 2007, held in Chengdu, China in April 2007. Coverage includes crime analysis, emergency response and surveillance, intrusion detection, network security, data and text mining, cybercrime and information access and security, intrusion detection, network security, terrorism informatics and crime analysis.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2017, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July/August 2017. The 53 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: association analysis; clustering; prediction; classification; schedule and sequence analysis; big data; data analysis; data mining; text mining; deep learning; high performance computing; knowledge base and its framework; and fuzzy control.
The Serial Set contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports. This volume includes House Reports from 107th Congress, 2nd Session, 2002.