Advantages: Funny and compelling Disadvantages: The dirty truth on greed
...this would be the infamous Enron Corporation, the final desperate and greedy actions of one of the world’s biggest companies to keep that illusion alive, before its sensational and unprecedented collapse in 2001 to the then world’s biggest corporate fraud., but Mr Madoff recently topping it. Three weeks after 911, a company that had built up a $60 billion dollar business in ten years was gone in just 24 hours, a vulgar fraud cynically allowed to ... ...like the top executives of Enron eventually were on live TV for this. The story… In 1989 the chairman of the fledgling Enron energy company-the said Ken Lay, the Bill Gates of the energy sector-had been involved in the perpetration of the exact same fraud some12 years earlier that would finally collapse his energy giant in 2001, but fortunately nipped in the bud by people who were honorable and prepared to act back in 1989. Fake joke companies called ...
thedevilinme 28.10.2009 (10.11.2009)
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Advantages: Completely absorbing Disadvantages: Very scary, a bit too technical
...am glad I did. Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room is a tale of greed and tragedy. It is a documentary detailing the rise and fall of the massive American energy company Enron. So far, so boring, right? Well, no. The leaders of Enron left the company in tatters, leaving thousands of people out of work, but conveniently leaving themselves millions of dollars. The story of the demise of Enron is a scary one. It shows how easily this company was able ... ...practices, cutting of energy supplies and some creative money management all lead to the end of this corporate giant.
From the start the film pulls you in and several times your left thinking: "How can they get away with that?".
Not coming from a business background, I found some of the dialogue hard to understand especially when describing accountancy systems and the like, however I do not feel this destracted from my enjoyment.
This is a great ...
asterix4816 30.01.2007
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Oscar nominated documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room portrays the incredible ... more
story of one of history's greatest business scandals.Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, Alex Gi...