COVER STORY The Fall of Enron How ex-CEO Jeff Skilling's strategy grew so complex that even his boss couldn't get a handle on it COVER IMAGE: The Fall of Enron CHART: Now You See It, Now You Don't CHART: Stunning Collapse TABLE: Skilling's Strategy: What Went Wrong? TABLE: A Star Is Born, Then Burns Out TABLE: Everyone Loved Enron Aftershocks in Europe TABLE: Indecent Exposure INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY Hyundai Gets Hot Chairman Chung has boosted quality and design while keeping prices low. And as sales soar, the big leagues beckon SPECIAL REPORT The Best Products of 2001 BusinessWeek e.biz: Our Favorite Clicks Products to Watch UP FRONT Talk Show Something New for MBAs: Job Treks Victims of Valley Law? A Family Affair--in Advertising Harry Potter & the Translators' Toil Silicon Valley Keeps On Giving Martha Cuddles Up to Tech How Hot Are They? READERS REPORT Putting an End to the Corporate Numbers Game Polluting Plants Get Built Because People Need Jobs Protecting Your Identity from Theft Deciphering the Fine Print on Medical Privacy Rules Did the Donald's Creditors Get Trumped? CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "Turning a bad year into tax savings" (BusinessWeek Investor, Nov. 26, 2001) "Don't let crooks steal your identity" (BusinessWeek Investor, Nov. 19, 2001) BOOKS Remembering the Titans Listening to China's Dissidents TECHNOLOGY & YOU Finally, a Hybrid That Really Works ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT The Wrong Time for Companies to Beat a Global Retreat ECONOMIC TRENDS Money, Money Everywhere Lost Job, Lost Spouse They Still Buy American BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Corporate America Is Clearing a Path to Recovery Japan: The World's No. 2 Economy Teeters on the Brink NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY AOL Time Warner: What the Shocker Means Q&A: Rumsfeld on the War, Iraq, and High-Tech Help (extended) Commentary: Interest Rates: Is the Fed Fretting Too Much? Commentary: Tech: Not Much of a Wave in Sight A Sock in the Eye for Labor Look at That Line outside Fenway Commentary: Ginger Can't Run on Hype Alone IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK William Ford: Road Test The Gavel Falls on Sotheby's The Super Bowl's Super Ad Drop Tough Tidings at CNA When Pro Forma Is Bad Form Micron: Hankering for Hynix Et Cetera... One Flu Over WASHINGTON OUTLOOK A Bush Recession? For the Dems, the Right Weapon at the Wrong Time The Bush-Microsoft Team Privacy: Double Standard Spectrum Standoff GOVERNMENT Charlotte Beers' Toughest Sell INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Cleaning Up Japan's Banks--Finally The Battle for the German TV Screen Spiffing Up Brooks Brothers INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK The Mideast: Is Arafat on the Way Out? Russia's Truce with OPEC An American in the Hot Seat INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Excite@Home: A Saga of Tears, Greed, and Ego FINANCE The Mutual Fund Mess Small Wonders RESUME: Mellody Hobson RESUME: David A. Corbin RESUME: Marilyn Holt-Smith & Kristin Yates SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Commentary: Mental Health: Better Benefits Won't Break the Bank DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH The Chip War Moves to Terahertz Terrain A New Way to Attack Type 1 Diabetes Hunting Genes in Iceland to Fight Arthritis Innovations MARKETING Chrysler's Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge Campaign THE CORPORATION Merck Could Use a Few Pep Pills BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE A Wine Cellar for Every Home Mid-Price Delights from California A French Revolution BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Your Performance Review: Make It Perform Merger Funds Find Their Place in the Sun THE BARKER PORTFOLIO It's Tough to Find Fund Whizzes INSIDE WALL STREET A Play for Take-Two? Drilling Hard at GlobalSantaFe Register.com: Its Domain Expands FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Enron: Let Us Count the Culprits INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM BUCHAREST A Live-Wire Mayor for a Tired Old City INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Shedding Light on the Special Saudi-U.S. Relationship Germany's Pampered Civil Servants Financial Planning Made Very, Very Simple Putting an End to the Corporate Numbers Game Why BMW Should Read This Letter The Teensy-Weensy Appeal of Teensy-Weensy Cell Phones INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS When Eager Lenders Meet Eager Borrowers Jockeying for a Piece of the Action INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS In Sweden, It's No Longer a Family Affair It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like an E-Christmas INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE The People's Republic of Mutual Funds Cleaning Up Japan's Banks--Finally Looking Lively in Bombay INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf)
November 5, 2001
Letter From Paris: The Deadly Glitz of a Grand New Hospital
from page 8 of this issue
North American and European Cover Photograph by Pam Francis
Asian Cover Photographs: Car, no credit; Photograph by Ki Ho Park/Kisstone
articles in the December 17, 2001 domestic edition previously published in international editions
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