The fiasco of the 2, 200-megawatt Dabhol plant, serving the Mumbai region, which also was caught up in the Enron collapse, is emblematic.
The Enron collapse sparked a national debate about the security of employees' retirement savings, as many Enron employees lost the bulk of their savings when the company filed for bankruptcy.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year reversed the criminal conviction of Arthur Andersen for a similar reason, saying the jury never found Andersen acted with criminal intent when it shredded documents related to the Enron collapse.
Defense attorneys have been able to cast a slim shadow of doubt on even the seemingly impervious whistle-blower Sherron Watkins , who memorably submitted a memo stating that "Enron will collapse in a wave of accounting scandals, " and former Treasurer Benjamin Glisan , who as it turns out received favorable treatment while in prison.
The suddenness of Enron's collapse raises the possibility of big, as yet unreported, problems inside the firm.
Enron's collapse last December was partly blamed on questionable accounting that kept hundreds of millions of dollars in debt off its books.
There will be another rehashing of Enron's collapse and Lay's and Jeffrey Skilling's subsequent and multiple trials, climaxing with their convictions.
First, the trial was held in Houston, where 4, 000 people lost their jobs and thousands more lost money in Enron's collapse.
And now, five years after Enron's collapse, merger and acquisition activity in the electric power industry is really picking up steam.
They acquitted themselves poorly in the run-up to Enron's collapse in 2001.
But don't expect Duke to fill the void created by Enron's collapse.
Mr Tilney had been placed on administrative leave in July for failing to testify to before a Senate subcommittee about Enron's collapse.
Nonetheless, part of the tragedy of Enron's collapse--and part of many compelling business movies--is the average Joe's often-futile quest for the American Dream.
Enron's collapse was the catalyst that allowed investigators and the investing public to peer into how corruption and greed had poisoned the markets.
Before Enron's collapse, nobody much cared about audit committees or auditors.
Although premiums for such insurance increased steeply after Enron's collapse, they fell by 10% this year, according to a recent survey by Tillinghast, a financial consultancy.
After Enron's collapse, I remember being asked how business schools could be training people with so little respect for the truth--how the company's executives could engage in such deception.
Yet Mr Skilling has always argued that Enron's collapse largely resulted from a loss of trust in the firm by its financial-market counterparties, who engaged in the equivalent of a bank run.
Lieberman said his investigation will focus on the "corporate scandal" -- how the collapse happened -- as well as what federal regulators did or did not do in the years leading up to Enron's collapse.
For many people, the mere fact of Enron's collapse is evidence that Mr Skilling and his old mentor and boss, Ken Lay, who died between his conviction and sentencing, presided over a fraudulent house of cards.
But the collapse of Enron left a bounty of pipeline assets in its wake.
But these are far different animals from the off-balance-sheet monsters that led to the collapse of Enron in 2001.
The subsequent sudden collapse of Enron was unanticipated by the Compensation Committee during the negotiations with Mr. Lay in August 2001.
And the likes of the collapse of Enron also tend to loom large in the minds of critics of business morals.
That was after the collapse of Enron, but before the latest scandals were revealed, such as a massive fraud by WorldCom.
Right up there with the collapse of Enron is the degree to which tech giant Apple is hated by so many people.
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The Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, passed after the collapse of Enron in order to stiffen up corporate governance, has put off foreign companies from listing there.
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