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Professor Baruch Lev discusses how corporate governance has improved since the collapse of Enron

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Excerpt from The Street.com -- "Enron's collapse was driven by governance weaknesses, auditing inefficiencies and accounting problems, and significant strides were made afterward in correcting the first two of those problems, said Baruch Lev. An accounting and finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, Lev testified before Congress after Enron's fall and has written five books including Winning Investors Over, published in 2012. 'Corporate boards are now more independent than they used to be, and they have committees that are completely composed of independent board members, like the audit committee,' he noted."

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