ELLIS v. BlueSKY CHARTER SCHOOL Legal Environment‚ BUAD 5315 Mark Inman Instructor: Dr. April Dyer ELLIS v. BlueSKY CHARTER SCHOOL Thomas Ellis‚ Relator‚ v. BlueSky Charter School‚ Respondent. No. A09-1205. Court of Appeals of Minnesota. Filed April 20‚ 2010 Facts: In November 2008‚ the parties signed an employment agreement providing that Relator was to serve as the director of the school for the 2008-09 school year. The title of the agreement states the dates July 01/2008-June 30/2009
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Case Study 2.3 Bernie Madoff and the Biggest Swindle in History Discussion Probes‚ p. 73 1. What unhealthy motivations drove Madoff to defraud investors and betray his friends? The motivation is selfishness. This is based on noted greed (extravagant lifestyle and the need to continuously take more money)‚ narcissism (feeling of entitlement and ignoring welfare of others)‚ and Machiavellianism (manipulation of others for self-gain‚ creating positive impressions while he gets what he wants).
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Bernie Madoff Rebecca Freedline Strayer University Business law Bernie Madoff Bernard L. Madoff (Bernie) is still making news headlines. He is currently incarcerated for numerous illegal and unethical behaviors. I am going to: Describe three types of illegal business behavior alleged against Bernie and explain how the behavior is illegal or unethical. Name three types of parties who were impacted by the actions of Bernie and how. Describe three business safeguards that
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Moral philosophy breaks down to the understanding of an individual’s belief in relationship to the group or to that individual. Just looking at the different philosophies‚ the conspirator‚ Bernie Madoff‚ is an egotist right down to his blaming the SEC and society for not being smart enough to know he was fabricating all his transactions. The self-interest of and individual is the fundamental actions of Maslow’s hierarchy‚ but in those teachings‚ it is assumed when you leave your childhood you will
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Ethical Behavior Analysis of Bernie Madoff & Enron Ethics‚ ethical values‚ and social responsibility should all work in unison in a corporate business structure. These key traits are better defined as maintaining overall good business morals‚ obtaining employees who possess personal ethical values‚ and finally to behave ethically and with sensitivity toward social‚ cultural‚ economic and environmental issues. For a business to better ensure these quality business traits a code of ethics should
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Bernie Madoff did not work alone. One reason is because a scheme of this magnitude would have been difficult for one man‚ even one as smart as Madoff‚ to pull off alone. Because of his long career and the amounts being traded at the end of 2009‚ the probable answer is that some people involved with Madoff were knowingly skirting financial rules and procedures. Some should be made aware of the legal fuzziness that exists within the financial sector. Such fuzziness has‚ in part‚ been deliberately created
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Lawrence Madoff‚ a former chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market and founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities‚ was one of the few NASDAQ market-makers who competed with the New York Stock Exchange‚ by trading stocks listed on the Big Board. Through the Cincinnati exchange‚ the Madoff was a pioneer in electronic trading and publicly spoke of the need to use technology to transform the inefficient and sometimes shady over-the-counter stock market (Monica Gagnier‚ 2008). But Madoff became famous
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Business ethics and Madoff affair The Madoff affair has broken all what can have a relation with ethics. Studying the case of Bernard Madoff has shown that he is a very smart person‚ because he was able to make all kind of people invest‚ rich and poor‚ smart and stupid‚ individuals and companies…etc. Bernard Madoff has used many ways to convince people to invest. Ways that obliged him to break ethic rules. These ways are: * Injecting money in order to fund research projects against several
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There are many ethical issues and failings in this case. For the love of profit‚ Bernie Madoff and his accomplices created and participated in what can be considered the greatest ponzi scheme in history. After several years in the securities and exchange industry‚ Bernie Madoff broke the law and deceived clients and investors in order to amass millions of dollars. It was unethical for him and others to prey on and betray the trust of investors. When he was repeatedly questioned by investigators‚
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Bernard Madoff Ethics Case Bernard Madoff is a former stock broker‚ investment advisor‚ etc. He pleaded guilty in March 2009 to 11 felonies and admits that he turned his wealthy management business into a massive ponzi scheme that defrauded thousand of wealthy investors out of billions of dollars. He began this scheme in the early 1990’s. The funds missing from the investors accounts include gains totaling almost $65 billion that was fabricated by Madoff. Madoff reached an agreement on February
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