Reaction Paper on Enron Case September 9‚ 2013 Summary: Enron’s origins date back to 1985 when it began life as an interstate pipeline company through the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Omaha-based InterNorth. Kenneth Lay‚ the former chief executive officer of Houston Natural Gas‚ became CEO‚ and the next year won the post of chairman. From the pipeline sector‚ Enron began moving into new fields. In 1999‚ the company launched its broadband services unit and Enron Online‚ the company’s website
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principles with everyday business operations and policies and then translates all of this into bottom-line results. For sustainability to be long lasting and useful‚ it must be representative of and integrated into day-to-day corporate activities and corporate performance. If sustainability is seen only as an attempt to provide effective public relations‚ it does not create long-term value and can even be a value destroyer. The key to success is integrating sustainability into business decisions‚ identifying
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Business Research Ethics The goal of corporations when incorporating a logo is to be memorable to the consumer and investor. Companies like Nike‚ Harley-Davidson‚ and Apple have an instant appeal to the public with their corporate symbolism. The emblem for Chevron with the blue and red “v- shaped” stripes in a militaristic badge pattern is recognized worldwide as one of the most famous of the six “supermajor” oil companies. These six‚ powerful corporations are sometimes referred to as “big oil”
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Enron’s collapse was the result of unethical practices; alas‚ such practices had a long‚ ignominious presence. The Enron story begins with CEO Kenneth Lay‚ who in 1986 combined his Houston Natural Gas company with several other entities. Until 1996‚ Enron primarily sold natural gas. Yet‚ in a sign of trouble to come‚ in 1987 Lay overlooked evidence of financial misdeeds in the company’s Valhalla‚ NY unit as executives Louis Bourget and Thomas Mastroeni greatly inflated profits while embezzling
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Chapter 4: Business Ethics 1. Ethical dilemma is a decision that ‘invites’ a conflict of values; every good course of action has some significant negative consequences. 3 examples of ethical dilemmas: a. My father’ employee have just done a good job on a project. My father has promised him that my father would give him 20% bonus. Yet‚ due to company politics‚ my dad was unable to give him the bonus. My dad also implied that if he was to submit inflated expense reports for the next 2 months‚
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IKEA in Russia - Ethical Dilemmas Lusine Demirjian Business Ehics I-Executive Summary IKEA is the world’s largest retailer of home furnishings. It strives to provide simple‚ functional‚ modern‚ and useful products at affordable prices to as many people as possible in as many places regardless of their geographical location. IKEA concept is implemented from the start of idea‚ implemented into the design‚ manufacture‚ logistics‚ sales and final assembly of each product. IKEA was developed by
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Busn1001012 9 October 2013 Describe the factors that influence Business Ethics. The factors that influencing Business Ethics Leadership‚ strategy and strategy also performance‚ individual characteristics‚ corporate and environment. Business ethics is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and... Ethics concern an individual’s moral judgments about right and wrong. Decisions taken within an organization may be made by individuals or groups‚ but whoever
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| Business Ethics Across Cultures Article Review | | Instructor | | 8/1/2010 | While researching business ethics across cultures‚ we discovered some of the same behaviors surrounding ethics in the United States is the same across the ocean. Outlined in this document will be the positive and negative side of business ethics. Explained will be the ethical perspective of corporate social responsibility and ethical conflicts. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) will show how a community
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DATE: February 17‚ 2012 SUBJECT: Business Ethics Over the recent years‚ the level of increasing demands for accountability been directed at both businesses and NGOs has tremendously grown. Below is a brief comparison of two different bodies on business ethics: one in the United Kingdom and the other in the US showing how their values or ideas on Ethics align. http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougguthrie/2012/01/31/paying-more-than-lip-service-to-business-ethics/ http://www.fm-magazine.com/comment/president/good-thinking-means-good-business
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Second‚ while conditions of globalization‚ national and global economic issues are swapping roles. With the development of international financial and other markets as well as production-sale structures‚ the global economic relationships more and more acquire the role of leading and governing structures. Even internal affairs of large and powerful countries‚ not to mention the remaining ones‚ are forced to adapt to the realities of the global economy. Third‚ globalization process objectively leads
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