Enron‚ Ethics And Today’s Corporate Values Enron’s heyday has long ended. But its lessons will long endure. The global business community is now watching a painful new chapter is this saga — one where its former high-riding chief executive officer‚ Jeff Skilling‚ is getting a decade shaved off of his prison term that should now end in 2017. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The company’s failure in 2001 represents the biggest business bankruptcy ever while also spotlighting
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Case summary – Enron Corporation’s Weather Derivatives Steve Haik‚ Dan Sleker and Bas van Bellegem – March 2003 Background In October Mary Watts‚ CFO of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW) reviewed the forward plan for PNW’s 200-2001 season. PNW’s has been experiencing nearly no EPS growth since 1995 due to deregulation and warmer-than-average winter climate. The stock price had suffered accordingly‚ but there maybe a way to hedge the weather risk via a new “weather derivative” being proposed by
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The central text for this project is the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room by filmmaker Alex Gibney. This film investigates‚ documents and then exposes the many moves that led to the collapse of Enron. The director focuses on the chief leaders of the corporation as his principal characters in order to develop the story as a human tragedy. Throughout the course of the film‚ each leading character is revealed. All players were found to be distinct in their strategies and methods. However
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The collapse of Enron case study Q1. The key stakeholders involved in‚ or affected by the collapse of Enron are: employees and retirees‚ thousands of them lost their jobs and the investment; the executives: Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow they sold significant blocs of company stock‚ have conflicts of interests; government figures‚ Lay had close personal tie with the Bush family‚ Enron’s efforts influence policy making; regulatory authorities: Commodities Futures Trading Commission
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On a cool October 30th the Cardinals are set to play the Boston Red Sox facing an elimination scenario. Boston has a chance to clinch the World Series in front of the home crowd for the first time since 1918. The atmosphere in Boston is going to be a factor. When a fan base knows that the team has a chance to win the championship‚ it brings out a little edge. Out of all the championship teams‚ none of them have had an effect on the fans as this year’s club. *Flash Back* *8 Hours before the game*
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room I. Review of the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a documentary that was produced in 2005 as a reflection of the 2003‚ bestselling book with the same name. The documentary was written by Bethany Mclean and Peter Elkind. The film‚ produced by Alex Gibney is an explicit demonstration of how reputable corporations can tumble down because of illicit financial management. The film is about the Enron Company‚ which experienced enormous financial
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Case Study: Slavery in the Chocolate Industry This case is about the slavery of young men in the Chocolate industry. Chocolate is made from the highly prized top quality cocoa beans that are grown on farms in West Africa‚ especially the Ivory Coast and Ghana‚ which make up close to half of the world’s chocolate. Slavery in the chocolate industry raises many issues including systematic‚ corporate and individual ethical issue. Here I’m going to discuss the issue I observed in this case
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The Black Sox Scandal was one of the oldest scandals in the professional sports industry. In 1919‚ Chicago White Sox did match fixing in the World Series‚ which determined the best professional baseball team in the year. Because of the Black Sox Scandal‚ eight players in the Chicago White Sox were banned from the Major League Baseball. This scandal was very shocking to people because professional sports‚ especially baseball‚ was consecrated for people at that time. People think there is no cheating
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Business and Society Review 110:1 59– 76 Applying the Agency and Stakeholder Theories to the Enron Debacle: An Ethical Perspective Blackwell Oxford‚ Business BASR © 0045-3609 O 1 110 BUSINESS CULPAN riginal 2004 Center UK Article and and Publishing‚ and TRUSSEL Society for SOCIETY Business Ltd. Review REVIEW Ethics at Bentley College REFIK CULPAN AND JOHN TRUSSEL INTRODUCTION W e examine the infamous Enron debacle from an ethical perspective by defining its theoretical underpinnings and analyzing
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in baseball history. Eight players from the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds. Details of the scandal and the extent to which each man was involved have always been unclear. It was‚ however‚ front-page news across the country and‚ despite being acquitted of criminal charges‚ the players were banned from professional baseball for life. The players on Charles Comiskey’s 1919 Chicago White Sox team were paid a measly sum compared to what many players
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