The Role Of The Board Of Directors In Enron S Collapse

Includes testimony given on May 7, 2002, & the Report prepared following the testimony, issued July 8, 2002. Witnesses for Panel One: current & former members of Enron Corp.'s Bd. of Dir.: John Duncan, former Exec. Comm. chair; Herbert Winokur, Jr., Fin. Comm. chair; Robert Jaedicke, former Audit & Compliance. Comm. chair; Charles LeMaistre, former Compen. Comm. chair; & Norman Blake, Jr., current Board Member on Finance & Compen. comm. Witnesses for Panel Two: Michael Sutton, Former SEC Chief Accountant, 1995-98; Charles Elson, Dir., Center for Corp. Gov., Univ. of Del.; & Robert Campbell, Former Chmn. of the Board, Sunoco, Inc., Current Board Member of Hershey Foods.

In contrast to the time-line narratives of previous books on Enron that offer interesting but largely unsystematic insight into individual actions and organizational processes, Innovation Corrupted pursues a more methodical analysis of the causes and lessons of Enron's collapse.