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...report details the work of Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration William W. Hogan, who is the research director for HEPG and claims that Hogan’s opinions were influenced by former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling...
Student-run monitoring group HarvardWatch released a report yesterday claiming the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG) has faced conflicts of interest due to their partial funding by Enron and calling for HEPG’s research director to step down...
...utility industry used to be the place widows and retirees invested their savings for steady dividend payouts and slow appreciation. That, of course, was before Enron--and before a recession and mild winter that crimped the demand for power. Since last October, investors have fled not only from the stocks of energy companies with complex finances and trading operations but also from old reliable electric and gas utilities. Some have lost half their value. Analysts view many of these utilities as prime candidates for acquisition, but even among the stronger U.S. energy firms, few are in a position...
...three companies produce and sell power on the wholesale market and also serve a large base of regulated retail customers. Hartmann is known as a careful shopper. When he explored a U.S. acquisition as CEO of Veba, the man on the other side of the table was Enron's Jeff Skilling. Hartmann walked away after deciding that the two companies' cultures and business models wouldn't mesh well together...
These are queasy days for investors. Stalled stock markets are upsetting enough. Adding to the unease is the Enron scandal, the cloud over corporate accounting, and questions about the impartiality of stock analysts. In the U.S., few of the checks and balances designed to ensure retail investors get a fair shake appear to be functioning properly...