In the Top 5

Posted by Marc Hodak on June 9, 2007 under Self-promotion | Comments are off for this article

I don’t expect big things from my Enron presentation because its breaks new ground in research or analysis. It doesn’t. Nor does it come to any startling new conclusions. What it does is distill the whole, incredibly complicated story to the essential elements that distinguished Enron from all the other companies whose greedy, lazy, or corrupt management didn’t bankrupt them. And it puts it all together in a form uniquely useful to a professor who has to cover this material in about two hours. That’s why I expect big things from this presentation.

My wife, who counted all the non-revenue generating hours I put into it, is skeptical. I can now point out that this submission is suddenly among SSRN’s Top 10 in the Organizational Behavior Research Centers Papers. But I’m afraid that just makes her more concerned–that this nominal success in an admittedly narrow category will only egg me on in spending unruly amounts of time preparing the remaining cases.