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Enron scandal
The Enron logo outside the company's headquarters, Houston.
Jeffrey Skilling, who served as Enron Corporationâs chief operating officer and later CEO, recruited top candidates from MBA programs to help transform the companyâs corporate culture.
Skilling sought to shift the organization toward a model of aggressive trading. By hiring these graduates, he fostered an intensely competitive internal environment focused on closing as many cash-generating trades as possible in the shortest amount of time.1