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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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Corporate governance involves a set of relationships amongst the company’s management‚ its board of directors‚ its shareholders‚ its auditors and other stakeholders. These relationships‚ which involve various rules and incentives‚ provide the structure through which the objectives of the company are set‚ and the means of attaining these objectives as well as monitoring performance are determined. Thus‚ the key aspects of good corporate governance include transparency of corporate
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Critical issues concerning management method through Corporate culture Introduction As it is realized by more and more people‚ especially executive managers and researchers‚ corporate culture plays a crucial role in the success of an organization. For many companies that have gained exclusively high fame‚ exposure and wealth‚ organizational culture is moreover an invisible property owned by the company. From 1970s‚ people began to understand the high competition from Japanese industry with unique
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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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Journal of Money‚ Investment and Banking ISSN 1450-288X Issue 25 September‚ 2012 © EuroJournals Publishing‚ Inc. 2012 http://www.journalofmoneyinvestmentandbanking.com The Availability of the Dimensions of Corporate Governance and its Impact in Promoting the Organizational Learning in Commercial Banks Operating in Jordan Eyad Taha Al-Rawashdeh Tafila Technical University College of Administrative & Financial Sciences Mailbox Post. Office: 179 Tafila‚ 66110‚ Jordan Abstract The study aimed at
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Enron- Examining a Business Failure University of Phoenix Organization Leadership LDR/531 Mr. January 12‚ 2010 Enron- Examining a Business Failure How did a multibillion dollar company arrive to the point of non existence? Was it the lack of organizational structure? Or maybe the lack of ethical management and leadership? One thing is certain and that is Enron has given the world a glance at how a leader within the energy industry‚ could have it all one minute‚ yet in a blink of
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Marketing: An Integrative Framework Isabelle Maignan Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam‚ the Netherlands O. C. Ferrell Colorado State University This article introduces a conceptualization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that emphasizes the role and potential contribution of the marketing discipline. The proposed framework first depicts CSR initiatives as the actions undertaken to display conformity to both organizational and stakeholder norms. Then
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Cover Page ◦Title Corporate Governance: Relevance and significance in the current Corporate environment. ◦Abstract This article will discuss whether the concept of Corporate Governance appears to make a difference in the way in which companies are managed at board level. It will also briefly mention whether the recent economic turmoil in major and minor companies alike‚ would have been due to a lack of proper corporate governance. It will also explore in brief about the principles
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Evidence based practices in Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST)‚ is it working or what can we do to make it better. Purpose To maximize Evidence Based Practices (EBD) in multi-systemic therapy in order to encourage each client/caregiver opinion toward a more optimistic view of the multi-systemic therapy process. “EBP implies that there is a definable outcome(s)” (Evidence-Based Practices‚ 2015). The goal is to get the client to take ownership in his/her behavior. EBP is to be used as a method for getting
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Assignment question 2. Definition of Corporate Governance 3. Literature Review 4. Reports and Reviews 5. Challenges 6. Director’s Responsibilities 7. Conclusion 8. References 1. ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS Question 1 Define‚ and state the importance of Corporate Governance Question 2 Provide a Literature Review Question 3 Provide a report and review of the debate on Corporate Governance. Question 4 Discuss the challenges that face Corporate Governance Question 5 Discuss
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