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Bankrupt energy giant Enron today selected Stephen Cooper, a business restructuring expert, to lead the company out of the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Ray Suarez examines retail in America, highlighting the legacies of K-Mart and the late Neiman Marcus retail entrepreneur Stanley Marcus, with Harvard business professor Nancy Koehn.

On the same day bankrupt energy giant Enron fired its accounting firm, the head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pledged to reform the regulation of the financial accounting system to prevent the abuses alleged in the Enron case.