Enron’s Line of Business Enron was originally involved in transmitting and distributing electricity and natural gas throughout the United States. The company developed, built, and operated power plants and pipelines while dealing with rules of law and other infrastructures worldwide. Enron owned a large network of natural gas pipelines, which stretched ocean to ocean and border to border. Enron Corporation represented one of the largest fraud scandals in history. As a result of the fraud investigations
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interest in corporate governance has emerged in recent years. The body of literature on the subject has grown markedly in response to successive waves of large corporate failures. Furthermore, there have been numerous attempts to define what constitutes ‘good corporate governance’ and to provide guidelines in order to enhance the quality of corporate governance. It must, however, be acknowledged that while everyone advocates and wants corporations to maintain ‘good corporate governance’, measuring
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Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance AnnMarie Seidler Dr. Charity Lanier Legal 500 October 30, 2013 As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a midsize company that is preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO), I discover several personnel problems that require my immediate attention. It is my duty to be familiar with the Employee-at-will Doctrine and any exceptions if any that may apply to the employees and my employer. While preparing to deal with our personnel problems I discover that
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Brand Communication Strategy 1st Lecture: The Ceo promotes the brand to the stakeholders: part of the brand communication strategy. Corporate social responsibility: all about ethics. Principles of Marketing (Kotler, Amstrong). Assignments: Google turns to you, how to develop brand communication strategy into the Chinese market? Market research Situational analysis Recommendations Based the strategy under the conclusion of the market research * Operational marketing 1
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Barnes and Noble: A Brief Report on Ethics, Compliance, and Financial Performance Gigi Garcia, Tarika Jackson, Osvaldo Ayala, and Lashaunda Kirkland April 17, 2014 FIN/370 Monique Johnson Barnes and Noble: A Brief Report on Ethics, Compliance, and Financial Performance Founded in 1965 by Leonard Riggio, Barnes and Noble was originally a small college book exchange. In 1970, Riggio had grown his small exchange by taking over the declining New York business trade name: Barnes and Noble. Only
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the three pillars of sustainability? The three pillars of sustainability are Social Economic and Environmental. 2.10-What are the four key responsibilities of business? Do you than an entity should consider discretionary responsibilities? Why? Corporate Social Responsibility, Shareholder Value, Stakeholder Theory, Stewardship Theory. Yes, I believe entities should consider discretionary responsibilities as I think it would benefit the company’s image within the community and it would also make
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Business Ethics Unit III Assignment Wal-Mart was founded on the vision of Sam Walton of Bentonville, Arkansas. It is the largest retailer globally and in the United States it generates over 2 percent of the gross national product. This retail giant was started as a company that would provide low prices for consumers daily. It has succeeded in that mission but through the years of growth and economic success Wal- Mart has had some critics related to business practices based on business ethics.
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a based on a case study of Nike. The article will be discussing legal and ethical analysis and how the impact the operational/ ethical issues of the organization, the paper shall also be discussing the contribution factors and how the company’s corporate culture may have helped to minimize the unethical behavior or actually contributed to/caused the unethical behavior. The paper is also going to provide ethical decision factors, which are going to address or going to be considered in resolving the
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British Journal of Arts and Social Sciences ISSN: 2046-9578, Vol.9 No.I (2012) ©BritishJournal Publishing, Inc. 2012 http://www.bjournal.co.uk/BJASS.aspx Corporate Governance and Performance of Saudi Arabia Listed Companies Yahya Ali Al-Matari Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Utara Malaysia matariyahya@yahoo.com Dr. Abdullah Kaid Al-Swidi College of Arts & Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia swidi@uum.edu.my, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Faudziah Hanim Bt Fadzil Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti
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