The researchers found evidence that the earlier post-Enron trend to align fees with risk has reversed.

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And the post-Enron conservatism is dampening product innovation and creative sales ideas.

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The ten-seat board, dominated in the post-Enron age by eight independent directors, has appointed a four-member search committee--without inviting Andreas to join it.

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But it's hard to climb to the top of the billionaires list with such tactics, and in the post-Enron world it will get only harder.

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Board members, including Greenberg's pals, Frank Zarb and Bernard Aidinoff, also worried about their own liability: Would they be held accountable in the post-Enron era?

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In the era that we were in (post-Enron), the board of directors were very sensitive and didn't want to put up a defense against anything.

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In the post-Enron era, these self-appointed do-gooders are granted breathless audiences by Congress, extolled on national television and lauded by Time magazine as Persons of the Year.

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So it goes in the Byzantine world of whistleblowers in the U.S. In the post-Enron era these self-appointed do-gooders are granted breathless audiences by U.S. Congress, extolled on television and lauded by Time magazine as Persons of the Year.

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The frantic efforts of Andersen this week to sort out its post-Enron fate smack of worried men and women seeking to distance themselves from the stench emerging from the Houston office of their partners in the firm of international auditors.

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Meanwhile, it has supplied Enron with new, post-bankruptcy financing.

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