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    Should Reality Shows Have Regulations I feel that anything that can be watched by our children during Prime Time Hours should be regulated. I watched a show “Housewives of Atlanta” and I was outdone with the antics‚ of course I know that sometimes things get out of hand. It was chaotic‚ and it causes our young people to think that these actions are valid because they get mega bucks to do this. When these shows are developed‚ it’s with the hope that they will be successful‚ and the show will soar through

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    Temuujin Enkhbold Enron Fraud Once the seventh largest company in America‚ Enron was formed in 1985 when InterNorth acquired Houston Natural Gas. The company branched into many non-energy-related fields over the next several years‚ including such areas as Internet bandwidth‚ risk management‚ and weather derivatives (a type of weather insurance for seasonal businesses). The Enron fraud case is extremely complex. Some say Enron’s demise is rooted in the fact that in 1992‚ Jeff Skilling‚ then president

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    The Need for Renewable Energy Sources Columbia Southern University Abstract An every growing population results in an every growing demand for energy. Energy is needed to power almost every aspect of our lives. Energy sources are defined as either non-renewable or renewable‚ with each having different impacts on the environment and the economy. Most of the environmental impacts today are a result of the dependence of fossil fuels. Renewable energy sources like solar

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    Urgent need for renewable energy Introduction In today’s world the most important thing human’s need is electricity. Without electricity most of the modern equipment would not work. Similarly fuel is needed to power transportation devices. Natural recourses such as coal‚ oil and natural gas are the basis for producing energy for all kinds of devices. Due to the extensive use of these resources they now face extinction. These resources are classified as non-renewable resources. In this report

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    Based in Houston‚ Texas an American energy‚ commodities‚ and services company named ENRON CORPORATION was Ranked number 7 on the fortune 500 list in 2000‚ it was one of the most famous and largest integrated natural gas and electricity companies in the world. The company went bankruptcy on December 2‚ 2001. But before that it marketed natural gas liquids around the world and was working as one of the biggest natural gas transmission systems in the world‚ with transmissions over a massive area of

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    pipeline sector‚ Enron began moving into new fields. In 1999‚ the company launched its broadband services unit and Enron Online‚ the company’s website for trading commodities‚ which soon became the largest business site in the world. About 90 per cent of its income eventually came from trades over Enron Online. Growth for Enron was rapid. In 2000‚ the company’s annual revenue reached $100 billion US. It ranked as the seventh-largest company on the Fortune 500 and the sixth-largest energy company in

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    authorized for use only by Mattia Tenaglia at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Please do not copy or redistribute. Contact permissions@dardenbusinesspublishing.com for questions or additional permissions. ENRON CORPORATION’S WEATHER DERIVATIVES (A) Everybody talks about the weather‚ but nobody does anything about it.1 In October 2000‚ Mary Watts‚ the chief financial officer of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW)‚ a utility servicing the Pacific Northwest region of the United States‚ reviewed the

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    What case can be made that it was the lack of regulation of the banking sector that led to the financial crisis of 2008-9? What are the new regulatory structures that are being proposed in the US and UK? The preconditions of the 2008-9 crisis were high unemployment‚ high growth which was stimulated partially by foreign investment caused by imbalance of current accounts on the international arena (ie. Huge debt of US and the UK and surplus of China‚ Korea‚ Japan). Large part of the problem was

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    Requirement for Regulation in Privatized Industries Privatization is likely to lead to incentives for firms to pursue productive efficiency. However‚ this will not ensure allocative efficiency‚ unless regulation is introduced to ensure that competition takes place. Another policy would be to pursue a policy of deregulation. In this case‚ the government actively removes various regulations‚ for example by removing entry barriers to encourage increased competition. Once an industry is privatized‚

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    Enron Case Study A company’s leadership and culture influences its business ethics. A company’s culture is known as the organizational culture. It is the actions and beliefs of individuals that work at the company. All the shared values and enforced policies contribute to organizational culture. “The leadership culture appears as an integral part of the organizational culture and it can have a positive or negative influence upon the latter.” (Popa‚ 2013‚ p. 179). The organizational culture

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