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    what the Lehman Brothers’ were doing wrong. In using the infamous Repo 105 trick it made covering up all the Lehman Brothers’ losses easy. Some say that the transactions were deceitful‚ but not unlawful. According to the grand jury report there is evidence that exists on violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other laws. The first problem with this scandal that made it so hard to detect was the CEO‚ other executives‚ and the auditing group (Ernst & Young) al knew about the Repo 105’s that

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    a big part in the downfall of Lehman Brothers. The company was accused of false reporting and rewarding employees for taking part in dangerous risk taking deals. Maybe the downfall of the company would not have been completely preventable but taking the higher road and showing honesty and integrity might have assisted the company in some small way. While the company’s competitors were feeling the stress of the beginning of the economic downturn‚ Lehman Brothers should have taken that as a sign

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    Table of Contents 1.0 History of Lehman Brothers 3 2.0 Causes of its Failure 5 3.0 Effects of Its Failure 8 4.0 Lessons Learned after the Collapse 9 5.0 Conclusions 11 6.0 References 12 7.0 Appendices 13 Abstract In year 2008‚ financial crisis had led to the collapse of many banks in United States. Lehman Brothers was one of the banks that had filed its bankruptcy on 15 September 2008. It was the biggest bankruptcy in the history and it still is for now

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    Content Executive Summary 1. Introduction 3. Impact of crisis on Lehman Brothers 5. Causes of the problems experienced by Lehman Brothers 6. Explore how the problems may have been avoided 7. Conclusion 8. References 1. Introduction Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.‚ the fourth largest US investment bank‚ succumbed to the subprime mortgage crisis in the biggest bankruptcy filing in history. The 158-year-old firm‚ which survived railroad bankruptcies of the 1800s‚ the great depression in the

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    Thomas Bulger Lehman Brothers 1. From an ethics perspective they weren’t successful at all. They were always cutting corners. All they cared about was the dollars and cents. They would reward employees for taking risks and ignored if you tried question their decisions or ethics. If the bank knew what was going on they wouldn’t have let that happen. But in my opinion I feel they weren’t caring about their company. They just cared about the money. They didn’t care about their stockholders

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    The business model is risky because Lehman doesn’t have significant fixed income like other investment banks. The loss of capital support made it depend on the repos in the mortgage business. It has high possibility to violate the principle of repo 105 to perfect balance sheet. Lehman uses Repo 105 to lower its leverage ratio to keep its balance sheet looking good and I can’t agree with this method of disclosure. Leverage makes profits when the return is larger than borrowing costs‚ otherwise companies

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    What was the culture at Lehman Brothers like? How did this culture contribute to the company’s downfall? Culture in a workplace can be determined based upon values‚ beliefs‚ interests‚ and experiences. At the Lehman Brothers they rewarded risk at any cost without validation. One of the main issues was their rapid growth over a 13 year period with very little change to their corporate culture. Questionable deals‚ unnecessary risks‚ and short-term profits were rewarded by management. The culture

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    describe how specific organizational behavior theories could have predicted or can explain the failure of the company. Compare and contrast the contributions of leadership‚ management‚ and organizational structures to the organizational failure. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc‚ the fourth largest US investment bank‚ succumbed to the sub prime mortgage crisis in the biggest bankruptcy filing in history. The 158 year old firm‚ which survived railroad bankruptcies of the 1800s‚ the great depression in the

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    Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008. 13. Buiter‚ W.H. (2008)‚ Lessons from the North Atlantic financial crisis‚ Paper prepared for presentation at the conference ‘The Role of Money Markets’ jointly organised byColumbia Business School and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on May 29-30‚ 2008. 2. Lehman Brothers ’ Risk Management Documents‚ chief risk officer Antoncic‚ Madelyn (17 August 2007) 3. Hudgins‚ Matt (2012)‚ Lehman Is Biding Its Time to Market Its Real Estate

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    THE BANKRUPTCY OF LEHMAN BROTHERS 1 The Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers: Causes of Failure & Recommendations Going Forward Amirsaleh Azadinamin Doctorate of Finance Candidate March 6‚ 2012 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2016892 THE BANKRUPTCY OF LEHMAN BROTHERS Abstract This paper looks at the failure of Lehman Brothers as the biggest bankruptcy case in the US history and the events that followed. The first part of the paper reviews factors that led to

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