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Topic: Global Crossing Ltd.

  
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How to Spot the Next Enron

BY George Anders
Relevancy Score: 75
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

Want to know how to avoid being fooled by the next too-good-to-be-true stock-market darling? Just remember these six tips from the cynics of Wall Street, the short sellers.READ»

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Advertisers in Issue 39

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 61
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:19 AM

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

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In The Hot Seat

BY Alison Overholt
Relevancy Score: 60
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:37 AM

Title: President, chairman, and CEO-elect
Company: AT&T
Where: Basking Ridge, NJ
Challenge: Create AT&T's future<READ»

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Advertisers in Issue 37

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 52
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:16 AM

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

LEADERSHIP SKILLS   |  2 comments

Are All Consultants Corrupt?

BY Alan M. Webber
Relevancy Score: 50
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

That's one possible conclusion in the wake of the Enron scandal. According to David Maister, who's been studying professional-services firms for more than 20 years, it's time to clear the air.READ»

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Scandal, Us


Relevancy Score: 48
Wed Jun 1, 2005 at 4:12 PM

Three years after Arthur Anderson's conviction on obstruction of justice charges, the revisionists are closing in. The public has largely moved on, satisfied that something is being done even if the outcome isn't neat and clean. The ...READ»

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Memo to: CEOs

BY Robert Simons, Henry Mintzberg, and Kunal Basu
Relevancy Score: 48
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo -- Five Half-truths of Business -- as a wake-up call.READ»

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Culture

BY Anne Kreamer and Kurt Andersen
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:36 AM

Anne Every morning as I read another dreary story of greed-head corporate malfeasance and insider arrogance, I remember two of my favorite pieces of satire. One is a comedy sketch starring Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live, where ...READ»

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Advertisers in Issue 38

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 39
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:17 AM

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

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Digital Matters - Issue 47

BY John Ellis
Relevancy Score: 37
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:28 AM

"Many things matter, and here's what matters most."READ»

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Facing Up to Enron, Facing Up to Risk

BY the founding editors
Relevancy Score: 35
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

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Fast Factoids

BY Katrina Barnes
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:13 AM

A few fast facts.READ»

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5 Habits of Highly Reliable Organizations

BY Keith H. Hammonds
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

The worst thing about recent business scandals is their lingering aftereffect: How can you move forward when you don't know who you can depend on? Karl E. Weick says the answer is inside highly reliable organizations. For them, uncertainty is the ''good stuff.''READ»

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Power

BY Harriet Rubin
Relevancy Score: 30
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:35 AM

"I've never seen a time like this," says Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News and, for the past 20 years, one of the greatest architects of power in the country. Ailes has a gift: He knows what makes people stars. He's most ...READ»

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How to Get Bad News to the Top

BY Scott Kirsner
Relevancy Score: 27
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:36 AM

If you think that what you don't know can't hurt you, you haven't been reading the papers.READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

The Rescue Squad

BY Anni Layne Rodgers
Relevancy Score: 26
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:41 AM

Dubbed "the rescue squad" because it has won so many high-profile, high-stakes, high-speed cases for American big business, Gibson, Dunn Crutcher explains how it operates -- and wins -- with efficiency, flexibility, and speed.READ»

ONLINE BUSINESS   |  Comment

What We Learned In The New Economy: A Brief History of a Brief Era

BY Carleen Hawn
Relevancy Score: 25
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:46 AM

What We Learned A Brief History Profiles Vocabulary Where Are They Now? What You Learned August 9, 1995: The Big Bang Netscape, just 16 months old, goes public on the Nasdaq. Shares, first priced at $28, open at $71. ...READ»

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Countdown to Relaunch!

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 19
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:16 AM

Intelsat has helped make global communications work -- while struggling to succeed as an international agency that answers to many different governments. Now it's up to Ramu Potarazu, Intelsat's privatization czar, to make the agency a real company.READ»

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The Female CEO ca. 2002

BY Margaret Heffernan
Relevancy Score: 19
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:35 AM

Here are the five naked truths about women in business. Together they add up to one big message: The future of business depends on women.READ»

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Less Burn, More Lift

BY George Anders
Relevancy Score: 18
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:27 AM

Internet companies have all made the same strategic shift: From "Get big fast" to "Cash is king." But how do you conserve cash without throttling back on growth? How do you spend less without missing huge opportunities?READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Strategy

BY John Ellis
Relevancy Score: 17
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM

I was standing on the patio of a friend's house in Hastings, New York, talking to a partner at one of the nation's leading law firms. I asked him about his work. "You wouldn't believe how weird it is," he said. "On our side, we've ...READ»

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Miracle Workers

BY Keith H. Hammonds
Relevancy Score: 16
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:40 AM

Amid the rubble of lower Manhattan, companies are working miracles to get their operations back to work. Firsthand reports from the New York Board of Trade, a Verizon switching center at 140 West Street, and other places under (re)construction.READ»

WORK LIFE BALANCE   |  Comment

Leah Kane: The Victim

BY George Anders
Relevancy Score: 13
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:42 AM

Meet Leah Kane, a retired secretary from southern California who took on SL financier Charles Keating and won ... sort of. Here's how a victim of the U.S. bond scandal rallied an army of retirement-home residents to battle fraud at the highest level and teach the world a thing or two about justice.READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Wall Street's Den of Thieves

BY John Ellis
Relevancy Score: 13
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

If you follow the trail of deceit from Enron to its natural lair, it only leads to one destination: Wall Street. Here's why.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Written in the Stars

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 10
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:52 AM

Sirius and XM are taking strategy and competition to the skies in an epic, multibillion-dollar struggle to dominate next-generation radio.READ»

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