Global Crossing (GBLX) Global crossing was founded by Gary Winnick, David L. Lee, Barry Porter and Abbot L. Brown in 1997 through a company called Pacific Capital Group (Winnick’s personal venture group). Global crossing provided computer networking services worldwide. The company offered transit and peering links, Virtual private network, leased lines, audio and video conferencing. Its customer base ranged from private individuals to large enterprises and other carriers. Global crossing suffered
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| Leading Quietly Case Study | Organizational Behavior | | Summary Traditionally, we think of great leaders as people who bring about change by their charisma, passion, and dedication to a noble cause. Thus, most of us think of leaders as courageous risk takers or in other words, heroes. Yet, in our daily life, we often find that the most effective leaders are rarely public heroes. They maintain a low profile, but do what is right for themselves and their organizations unnoticeably
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Insider Trading – Breach of Corporate Fiduciary During Mergers and Acquisition Scenario - A Leadership and Corporate Accountability Study EPGPKC/02/047 EPGPKC/02/063 EPGPKC/02/064 EPGPKC/02/068 EPGPKC/02/070 EPGPKC/02/076 Bijith P. B. Madhu Chandran Mahashook Ebrahim Nikhil Hari Kesavan Paul Cherusseril Mohan Rakesh Krishnan Sudheer Insider: Corporate insider has privy to information of the company (sales and profit figures, future growth indicators, management strategies
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Sung-kook and Raymond Park, engaged in market misconduct and banned the company and Hwang from securities trading in the city for four years. Hwang, the founder of New York-based Tiger Asia, and Park, the head of trading, last year admitted to insider dealing in the shares of two mainland banks and were ordered by the court to pay more than HK$45 million to about 1,800 investors. In a statement announcing the tribunal's ruling, the Securities and Futures Commission said: "This heralds a sterner approach
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Chapter 1 The Goals and Functions of Financial Management Discussion Questions |1-1. |How did the recession of 2007–2009 compare with other recessions since the Great Depression in terms of length? | | | | | |It was the longest
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Two ethical considerations that immediately come to mind from lecture are” The protection of research participants from harm/ Harm to participants outweighs the good of the research” and “Informed consent/ deception”. Protecting research participants from harm calls for ensuring their rights and mental/ physical health is not violated or adversely affected by the research. If conducting research on illegal drug use, a researcher, cannot tell participants, that their disclosure of drug use or illegal
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The ACMM Inc. is a firm that deals in stock exchange and foreign exchange trade dealings of currency. In the for front of dealing with these daily operations there is need for use of technology to implement a swift execution technique in formulation of trends and prediction of various outcomes in business transaction involving online money transactions and selling of stock market shares. In such an environmental set up there is need for security to guarantee the safety of the currency that the various
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The process of public policy-making involves interactions between diverse interests and stages in which political pressure groups take different strategies. Australian society has had an increasing number of pressure groups, one of main concerns of which has been public welfare policies. As the history of Australian welfare state has developed with substantial inputs from pressure groups, it is worth questioning whether their influence is still considerable in shaping or changing public policy outcomes
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World War II and began to weaken in the 1990s. Germany’s traditionally insider-dominated corporate governance system has undergone substantial reforms since the early 1990s. These resulted in a “hybrid system,” Complementing the traditional stakeholder-oriented system with important elements of the shareholder-oriented system. As a result, the control of outsiders, especially minority Shareholders, has increased and insider control has been reined in. Moreover, these reforms fostered flexibility
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security of these vast amounts of data are both ethically and legally mandated. What are the available tool sets that are accessible to an organizations IT Staff to secure databases from intrusion and exploitation? This is of extreme importance when dealing with the volume of data that exists and the personal and private nature of so much information. There are concerns over Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as well as Personal Health Information (PHI); unauthorized access to these could lead
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