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The Milk Just Keeps On Spilling At Parmalat Evidence is emerging that many investment bankers in Italy, Germany, and London harbored doubts about Parmalat's numbers for years, suspicious of its superheated growth. Why did many big banks keep floating its debt? |
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Parmalat's Tanzi Is "Depressed" You're in jail for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. What do you do? Tell the judge you're sad. |
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Has Ahold Weathered The Storm? The grocery giant, buffeted by scandal, may be staggering toward recovery. |
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Auditors Asleep At The Wheel. Sound Familiar? Parmalat's collapse seems like deja vu all over again. That's because two of the tainted parties are accounting firms: Grant Thornton and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. One red-faced party is Italy's government, whose effort to build safeguards didn't work. |
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He's Brave Enough To Take Up Shell Shell CEO van der Veer is ending the clunky dual structure and speeding decisions. |
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Parmalat on the Offense The bankrupt Italian food and dairy giant files lawsuits against bankers over collapse. |
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Yukos: The Moment Of Reckoning Tax and loan bills for Russia's second-largest oil company are now past due. How will Putin choose to wield his ax? |
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Putting Blame Where It Is Due Shorts don't take down companies -- crooked and incompetent executives do. Similarly, those homebuilders who are seeking to put more control on Fannie Mae are not the cause of its problems. They're a result of its actions. |
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HBS Working Knowledge
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Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? The collapse of companies like Enron and WorldCom cost investors tens of billions of dollars. But that amount may be dwarfed by the cost of conforming to new laws driven by those corporate scandals -- laws that are intended to protect investors. |
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Parma-Splat! An Opera In Way Too Many Acts Enron and WorldCom introduced us to the high art of massive fraud. But Parmalat and its former chief executive, Calisto Tanzi, have elevated the form to epic tragicomedy. |
