Enron: Tone at the Top The fall of Enron is not just one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history‚ but in my opinion‚ a landmark case study of the lack of business ethics in an organization. Enron’s downfall‚ along with the demise of Arthur Andersen‚ one of the largest public accounting firms at the time‚ brought about a swift change in U.S. regulations governing how publicly traded companies reported their financials. While the top brass at Enron pled ignorance to the fact that they had no control
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Bikes vs. Cars Lots of people find it hard to differ a bike from a car. They normally choose the car and ignore the bike. Today in our country people are too lazy to see their similarities and just choose the one that’s easier to drive. Although they are similar by giving you transportation‚ they definitely have a large amount of differences too. Bikes are made and bought in a lot of different styles‚ sizes‚ and colors. Bikes have two wheels and are powered by physical labor from the driver
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Analyzing the Article “America‚ Still on Top” American universities currently do a better job overall at preparing students for the society. Vartan Gregorian in his article “America‚ Still on Top”‚ declares that one of the great strengths of U.S. higher education is that it grew by “informal design”. He mentions the 1862 Morrill act‚ which the states were able to found colleges by using federal lands. Also states created universities‚ junior city and county colleges. In this article Gregorian
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and John Stoll Swedish carmaker Volvo is planning to produce driverless cars that are aimed at reducing crashes‚ through the use of self-driving car technology by 2020. Volvo’s vision is that no one will be killed or injured in these driverless cars because there is no chance for human error. Volvo also believes that with the driverless car technology it’s developing‚ we could see virtually zero car deaths‚ at least in cars with this technology. Existing vehicles could be easily adapted to this
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it better when you have more choices or when you have fewer choices? Most people would answer more choices as they would feel less limited because it is common to associate having more choices with having more freedom and having more freedom with having more welfare. In fact‚ this is not always correct as you may not have enough knowledge to know which may be the most beneficial to you in the long run. This is turn relates to what is best known as the paradox of choice because we may think we have
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A SYNTHESIS OF THE RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATION DESIGN* HENRY MINTZBERGt The elements of organizational structuring-which show a curious tendency to appear in five ’s-suggest a typology of five basic configurations: Simple Structure‚ Machine Bureaucracy‚ Professional Bureaucracy‚ Divisionalized Form‚ and Adhocracy. The elements include (1) five basic parts of the organization-the operating core‚
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bIntermediate students will really enjoy reading and doing some of the activities related to this article‚ “The Top FUN RUNS in America” by Nick Livermore of ECO18.com. This article is a very interesting because some of the runs that are published are local and we can actually experience what some of the participants and writer are writing about. The article allows for students to think and speak about fun group activities done in their country such as Encierro “The Running of The Bulls”. In
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How did your car perform? Explain the aspects of your car that made it function well. What are some areas of improvement for your car? Explain how it could have been made better so that the car could have performed better. During its test‚ my mousetrap car curved to the right causing it to crash into a wall and stop short of its full potential. However‚ the car still traveled the the entirety of the 11 meters required for the maximum number of points. The reasons that my mousetrap car functioned as
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technology. The flying car would revolutionize the world and change normal living behaviors. With the advancing technologies that are emerging today flying cars are just around the corner. Within the next 10 years flying cars will hit the sky and be sold on a normal basis. New technologies such as fuel cells will make the flying car much more practical due to the fact that they will require a great deal of energy to operate. At first when the premiering sky car takes off to the market it
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2. OVERVIEW OF CON EDISON SYSTEM AND LIC NETWORK 2.1. Electrical System Overview 2.1.1. Power Delivery System Con Edison delivers electricity to 3.2 million customers in New York City and Westchester County – a service territory of 660 square miles with a population of approximately 9 million people. Electricity is delivered through approximately 94‚000 miles of underground cable and almost 37‚000 miles of overhead cable. As shown in Figure 2-1‚ the Con Edison electric power delivery system is
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