Albert John Dunlap (born July 26‚ 1937) is a retired corporate executive. He was best known as a turnaround specialist and downsizer. The ruthless methods he employed to streamline ailing companies‚ most notably Scott Paper‚ won him the nicknames "Chainsaw Al" and "Rambo in Pinstripes". However‚ his reputation was ruined after he engineered a massive accounting scandal at Sunbeam-Oster. Dunlap believed that the primary goal of any business should be to make money for its shareholders. To that end
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Exchange in 1968‚ and they continued to expand their network of pipes through new constructions and acquisitions. In 1985‚ these two companies merged to create a pipeline system that touched every coast and border of continental United States. Kenneth lay became CEO of the new company‚ which he later called Enron. Lay‚ born in rural Missouri was the son of a Baptist Minister. He Embraced the concept of Enron with a believe which many observers likened to a religious believe. The idea that drove
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Many people will argue over what they believe to be the main contributing factors to the largest corporate collapse in history that of the Texas based energy giant Enron. The consensus of authors‚ experts‚ reporters and basically anyone familiar with the story is that greed is ultimately responsible for the corporation’s demise. This is essentially true and self management theory explains why the Enron executive’s greed did not work out so well for them and the company. Self management is a
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Reflection on the Transcription of The Saint Crispin’s Day Speech scene from Kenneth Branagh’s film of the Shakespeare classic Henry V (1989) By Bharat Kathpalia The recording I chose to transcribe for this assignment was The St. Crispin’s Day Speech from Kenneth Branagh’s film of Shakespeare’s Henry V. The St. Crispin’s Day Speech was delivered by Henry (played by Branagh) to his soldiers‚ a day before the Battle of Agincourt. The scene begins with a discussion between Henry’s cousin the Earl
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Behavior Adam S. Wilcox XACC/280 5/9/2012 Angelia Hunter Impacts of Unethical Behavior The collapse of Enron in 2001 shed the light on a number of unethical business and accounting practices in the corporate world. In 1986 Enron CEO Kenneth Lay combined his Houston Natural Gas company with several other companies. At this time the company began growing exponentially. By the mid-1990’s the deregulation of the oil and gas industries allowed Enron to spend heavily and purchase companies
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Beach Burial- Kenneth Slessor The 1944 poem “Beach Burial”‚ was written about Kenneth Slessors experience during World War II in El Alamein‚ Egypt. Kenneth Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist‚ who was the correspondent reporting from North Africa. Unlike other poems written about war‚ “Beach burial” is neither nationalistic nor patriotically written and does not commemorate heroes‚ as it tells of enemies uniting in death. The poem is a tribute to the masses of soldiers who died in the
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issues in Look Back in Anger / Look Back in Anger as a mouthpiece of John Osborne The first production of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger in 1956 provoked a major controversy. There were those‚ like the Observer newspaper’s influential critic Kenneth Tynan‚ who saw it as the first totally original play of a new generation. There were others who hated both it and the world that Osborne was showing them. But even these critics acknowledged that the play‚ written in just one month‚ marked a new voice
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also believe it is important for this essay to define the Middle East. To do so‚ I will be using a variety of content‚ from journals to books. Focusing on Realism‚ I have looked at the works of John J. Mearsheimer and Kenneth Waltz. I will be analyzing their study of International Relations‚ and their Realist ideologies. When discussing the Middle East‚ Gregory F. Gause’s article entitled‚ “Systematic approaches to the Middle East International Relations‚” has proved to
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ENRON Principles of Accounting Enron Key Players KENNETH LAY Former Enron chairman JEFFREY SKILLING Former Enron CEO DAVID DUNCAN Former Andersen partner NANCY TEMPLE Andersen lawyer THOMAS WHITE Secretary of the Army SHERRON WATKINS Enron vice president Enron started about 29 years ago in July 1985 in Houston‚ Texas.. A energy economist named Kenneth Lay became the CEO of Enron. Mr. Lay was a very optimistic
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John Kenneth Muir analyzes the issue over the post-apocalyptic destruction‚ in which he studies the effect on human civilization by asking the viewer‚ “How many would act in the same fashion; refusing to trust "strangers" until they knew that the risk was passed?” One of the effects Muir mentions throughout the reassessment is the loss of hope for the greater good of a social club. Still‚ too much hope in society can be dangerous in the wrong hands‚ and will most likely lead to a catastrophic result
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