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From former FEMA director Michael Brown to Enron ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling, history is rife with poor leaders.

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's appellate battle apparently will continue with what his attorney says is "newly discovered evidence." In a motion for a time extension filed last week, Daniel Petrocelli asked to have until August 17 to submit Skilling's latest brief.

A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.

Former Enron Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling is reviving his quest for a new trial based on evidence his legal team received from prosecutors long after he was convicted of 19 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading and lying to auditors.

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Hakluyt & Co., the corporate investigations firm that hired British businessman Neil Heywood as a consultant in China , has been thrust by his death into a place it promises clients it will never be: the limelight.

CEO Jeffrey Skilling , who was convicted of conspiracy, securities fraud and insider trading in 2006, wants a new trial, Reuters reports.

The JPMorgan CEO apologized because admitting something went wrong is the way to learn from a mistake and avoid a repeat.

Australian shares build on yesterday's modest advance. Miners lead gains, as confidence about the global economy gives commodity prices a lift.

Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling , now serving a 24-year prison sentence for misleading his company's investors, intends to seek a retrial, his lawyer said.

The high risk of taking the stand in person could pay off for Rajat Gupta. The smart money says the former McKinsey boss and Goldman Sachs director won't testify at his insider trading trial, which starts on Monday in New York.

The second ballpark destination on our Great Adventure was Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros.A Formerly known as Enron Field, we learned that you do NOT call it that, not in Houston, anyway.A The locals make it obvious that they wish memories of that infamous company would just go away.

Since graduating from Harvard Business School in 1979, Clayton M. Christensen has observed personal tragedies in the lives of his fellow MBAs, from a string of unhappy marriages, estranged children, and messy divorces, to enormous scandal--classmate Jeffrey Skilling was CEO of Enron.

When Chesapeake Energy Corp. Chief Executive Officer Aubrey McClendon went on an oil and natural gas buying spree, Ralph Eads was the banker who found the money to fund it.

Jonathan Weil joined Bloomberg News as a columnist in 2007, and his columns on finance and accounting won Best in the Business awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2009 and 2010.

Twelve years ago when John Arnold was just 26 and at Enron, he was responsible for trading one-third of the American gas market each day.

Stephanie Gularte, artistic director at Capital Stage, announces the company's coming season during a recent private event for subscribers.

The seat got hot again in 2012.Not since Enron Corp.’s collapse in 2001 has so much noisy public attention been paid to who is sitting on corporate boards and to how they are minding the store.Around the country, including in Kansas City, ordinarily quiet annual meetings have turned into protest grounds challenging executive pay, corporate tax ... (more)

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I'm willing to wager that, for most folks, the name Enron conjures up unpleasant notions of corporate malfeasance, fraudulently pumped-up businesses, seedy accounting practices, corporate officers cooling their heels behind bars, and the ultimate death of Arthur Andersen, once the lion of public accounting firms.