At Enron Corp., they called her "the Weather Babe." Lynda R. Clemmons, a French and history major from Southern Methodist University, was supposed to be emblematic of the rebels in Enron's freewheeling culture. In 1997, as a 27-year-old gas-and-power trader, she launched an esoteric enterprise in weather derivatives. Within two years, her startup had written $1 billion in weather hedges to protect companies against short-term spikes in the price of power during heat waves and cold snaps. Clemmons' story made the rounds, from a favorable Harvard Business School case study to The New York Times business section, where she was pictured in black leather on a Harley-Davidson. She was, after all, a product of what Enron's culture was supposed to be all about: smart, sassy, creative, and risk-taking. And Enron made the most of her business, trumpeting weather derivatives as yet another high-potential deregulated market.
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机译：在安然公司，他们称她为“天气宝贝”。南部卫理公会大学的法国和历史专业的Lynda R. Clemmons被认为是安然随心所欲文化中叛军的象征。 1997年，作为27岁的天然气和电力贸易商，她创立了一家深奥的天气衍生品企业。在不到两年的时间里，她的初创公司写了10亿美元的天气对冲工具，以保护公司免受热浪和寒潮期间电力价格的短期上涨影响。克莱蒙斯的故事四处传播，从哈佛商学院的案例研究到《纽约时报》的商业版块，她在哈雷戴维森的黑色皮革上合影。毕竟，她是安然文化本该具有的全部产物：聪明，活泼，富有创造力和冒险精神。安然（Enron）充分利用了自己的业务，大力宣传天气衍生品，这是另一个高度放松管制的市场。
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