1. What were the roots of McCarthyism? In the late 1940s and early 1950s Americans were scared of a second red scare and that communism would influence their country (Tindal & Shi). Americans had seen what communism had done to Russia and how it was a factor of the Korean War and did not want to go down that road too. To calm Americans down an organization was formed called the House Un-American Activities Community. The organization was formed to protect communism influence on American by investigating
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What are the reasons why Enron collapsed? * Investments Enron dealt in energy. According to Infinite Energy‚ the first and main cause of Enron’s collapse was failed investments. Enron invested money in fiber-optic networks‚ a power plant in India and water distribution in the United Kingdom‚ to name a few. While a company the size of Enron could afford occasional losses‚ the mounting‚ failed investments added up and created a plethora of debt. * Hidden Losses Infinite Energy states that
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GOVERNANCE AND THE FALL OF ENRON Introduction to the Enron Case Enron was one of the world’s leading energy traders born from deregulation of these markets in certain US states. It rapidly grew and the world followed suit. It was nominated ‘World’s Most Innovative Large Corporation’ six years in row and valued at 64 times its earnings and 6 times its book value. It had one of the highest paid CEOs in the world in 2000. It led an aggressive and apparently effective expansion model from its creation in
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e-Business Research Center RESEARCH REPORTS 5 2003 THE ROLE OF E-BUSINESS FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN THE TRANSFORMING EUROPEAN FOOD AND NON-FOOD RETAIL BUSINESS Richard Windischhofer i Distribution e-Business Research Center Published by Tampere University of Technology and University of Tampere Printed edition Electronic edition in http://www.ebrc.info ISSN ISBN ISSN ISBN 1459-0158 952-15-0950-3 951-44-5548-7 Cover design by Mainoscraft Oy Printed by
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2) Compare and contrast e-business and traditional business? Now days‚ technology has made human life easier and better. It has developed many fields to perform their task easier such as‚ manufacturing‚ constructions and many more. Business sector has also changed a lot with the improvement of technology from traditional business it evolves to e-business and bringing a big difference in three major areas that is time‚ trust and As we all know that time is precious for many people‚ the same
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Value of e-business system e-business used to describe businesses run on the internet. increasingly‚ much direct selling is taking place on the internet of computer-related equipment and software. most of the company start to run their business on the internet because e-business is able to reach a much wider consumer base than the traditional one and also bring back much more benefit for the company. tangible benefits since they have online store and customers around the world start to
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Enron case 1. What activities and practices of Enron’s management team do you believe were unethical and/ or illegal? Concealing debt By using SPEs‚ Enron’s balance sheet understated its liabilities and overstated its equity and earnings. Enron disclosed to its shareholders that it had hedged downside risk in its illiquid investments using special purpose entities which were lies. Enormous spending Extravagant expenses were rampant in the company which included enormous salary expenses
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#1. Based on what you read in this chapter‚ summarize in one page or less how you would explain Enron’s ethical meltdown. Ethics refers to “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group; specifically‚ the standards you use to decide what your conduct should be (Dessler‚ 2011).” Secondly ethical decisions always involve questions or morality (Dessler‚ 2011). Anyone that had anything to do with the meltdown at Enron had no ethical standards. Enron had a lack of accounting
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Using a website of your choice - provide a brief background of the site including the company‚ product and/or service being offered‚ and the overall purpose of the site. YOUTUBE is the website I choose and here is a brief background‚ YOUTUBE was launched on February 14‚ 2005 when three former PayPal employees activated the Internet sphere name “YouTube.com” and in initiated a video sharing website in which users can share their videos and view. It started as a free source to view and share videos
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