Following the Money: From Enron to Hedge Funds
Bethany McLean
Thursday, 08 Oct 2009 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Before joining Vanity Fair as a contributing editor in 2008, Bethany McLean was an editor-at-large for Fortune magazine, where she wrote an article in March 2001 that raised questions about the immense profitability of Enron, then a darling of the stock market. Her article "Is Enron Overpriced?" was the first in a national publication to openly question the company's dealings. In 2003 she cowrote a book about the scandal that led to the energy company's collapse, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, which was developed into a documentary in 2005. McLean graduated from Williams College with a double major in math and English. She worked as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs until 1995, when she joined Fortune as a reporter. The 2009 Chamberlin Lecture.Cosponsored By:
- Chamberlin Lecture Fund
- Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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