required the board to balance its fiduciary responsibility against the original mandate of Milton Hershey to support the Hershey School in perpetuity. The fiduciary responsibility is relatively simple compared with satisfying a broad array of constituents‚ including the Hershey community‚ HFC employees‚ and Pennsylvania’s attorney general. Suggested questions 1. Assume that you are a member of the Hershey Trust board. To whom (or what) do you owe your fiduciary responsibility? How does the legacy
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which stakeholders can currently be considered to be part of the “the company” for the purpose of the director’s duty to act in the best interests of the corporation? Company is a form of corporation and regulated by the Corporations Act. The legal significance of being as a company is it exists as a separate legal entity and dependent upon human beings to make decisions on their behalf. The person who makes or participates in making decisions that affect the whole or a substantial part of the
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What allegations did Bruce Lien assert his complaint in the civil action that he brought against the corporation and the other members of the board of directors in April 2000? Bruce Lien alleged minority shareholder oppression‚ breach of fiduciary duty and tortuous interference with prospective business relations or expectancy. G. Under what South Dakota statute did the trial court find that there was a shareholder deadlock in failing to elect directors? (example: (SDCL __-__-__)
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1. Several factors have made Interco an attractive takeover target: 1) Interco’s stock is undervalued due to poor performance in the apparel and general merchandising divisions‚ which have weakened Interco’s valuation as a whole. 2) As stated by the equity analysts‚ Interco is an over capitalized company with potential to grow‚ which makes an acquisition easy to finance. 3) Interco is also a cash generative target for a potential acquirer as it generates approximately $0.10 of operating cash flow
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treasurer What’s happened: All were indicted on federal fraud charges. The SEC filed civil charges‚ and Adelphia sued the Rigases. The individuals and company have denied wrongdoing. Questions 1) What breaches of fiduciary duty does the Adelphia case raise? Directors breach of public fiduciary responsibilities to the company and clients. The Riga’s family practically uses the Adelphia as their family piggy bank‚ withdrawing funds when they needed for their own purposes. They had to act in the best interest
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Odwalla Case Assignment In the Odwalla Case there are many stakeholders. There are the employees‚ the customers‚ the communities‚ the media‚ the suppliers‚ and the shareholders. The most important stakeholder in this case is the owners: founder‚ Greg Steltenpohl and CEO Stephen Williamson. I know they are the stakeholders because they not only have a direct economic transaction with the company but also‚ their actions affect the outcomes of the business. For example‚ they set up the values of the
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If the board of directors have been more involved then I think maybe they would have caught on that there were fraudulent and unethical activities happening. However‚ since they were not proactive they were not able to stop the misbehavior from the company’s employees. The board of directors were to be held with as much fault as the culpants. The tax evasion‚ inflated profits‚ commingling of assets was illegal and the unauthorized bonuses that they were handing out were not authorized‚ but they still
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[ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES] 1973 Nov. 26‚ 27‚ 28‚ 29; Dec. 3; Lord Wilberforce‚ Lord Diplock‚ 1974 Feb. 14 Lord Simon of Glaisdale‚ Lord Cross of Chelsea and Lord Kilbrandon Company - Director - Fiduciary duty - Allotment of shares - Australian company in need of capital - Primary object of directors to alter majority share holding of issued shares - No personal advantage to directors - Whether power to allot shares validly exercised by directors
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Ferguson v Wilson (1866) LR 2 Ch App 77 ‘The company itself cannot act in its own person… it can only act through directors’‚ Cairns LJ‚ pp 89-90. Ernest v Nicholls (1857) 6 HL Cas 401 ‘[The shareholders] can only act through the directors‚ and the acts of the individual shareholders have no effect whatever on the company at large’‚ Lrd Wensleydale‚ p 419. Bushell v Faith 1969 1 All ER 1002 Where directors were empowered by the articles to increased voting rights on any resolution to remove
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at $90 billion. The Wal-Mart business model includes two main segments: Wal-Mart Stores and Sam’s Clubs. Wal-Mart is acts in a way to product the greatest possible balance of good over dissatisfaction for their stockholders. Wal-Mart upholds the fiduciary duties to their stockholders by not increasing wages of their employees instead they take the sum of money and return it back to their stockholders and shareholders such as customers and suppliers. Through the help of multiple partners Wal-Mart can
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