economy? The Enron scandal is an example of a historical exposure of unethical behaviors within a company and it is also one of the largest corporate scandals in America. Enron started as a gas pipeline company. It soon expanded into the world’s largest and dominant corporation focusing on trading gas‚ electricity and water – the most essential needs of a citizen living in North America. In December of 2001 Enron filed for bankruptcy. The moral concern from this scandal was the immoral practices
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1. Methodology 1.1 Impact of Buy and Sell Recommendations We examined the effect of Barrons’ buy‚ sell and hold recommendations on stock prices‚ using the Brown and Warner (1985) standard event-study method to compute the daily abnormal returns. We used a two-step procedure to compute the average daily abnormal returns with stock price data from CRSP. First‚ we estimated the alpha and beta coefficients of each firm by using a single-factor market model. We used the days from –301 to –46 as the
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The Watergate scandal is arguably the biggest scandal to come from the White House since Andrew Johnson’s impeachment in 1868. Like everything else in this world it started off small‚ but escalades into something bigger. It started off as a small break in‚ but as time progressed the American people ran into a corrupt leader in Richard Nixon. At the end of this ordeal it rendered one of the most powerful men in America helpless. For it was Nixon’s active involvement in the cover up‚ combined with
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Research Proposal Business Process Outsourcing In South Africa Prepare For: Dr. Christel Troskie-de Bruin MBA program Lecturer in Research Methodology University of Stellenbosch Prepared by: Roelof Louw Student Number: 10992510 11 July 2005 Table of Contents 1 Introduction and Background 1 2 Definition of Research Problem 2 3 Preliminary Literature Review 2 4 Research Design and Method 4 5 Timeframe 5 6 Framework for Proposed Study 6 7 Provisional List of Sources
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5 S’s 5S is the name of a workplace organization method that uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri‚ seiton‚ seiso‚ seiketsu‚ and shitsuke. Transliterated or translated into English‚ they all start with the letter "S". The list describes how to organize a work space for efficiency and effectiveness by identifying and storing the items used‚ maintaining the area and items‚ and sustaining the new order. The decision-making process usually comes from a dialogue about standardization‚ which builds
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Corporate Governance WorldCom Scam Introduction MCI WorldCom was one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. Bernie Ebbers founded WorldCom in 1983‚ after that WorldCom began as a re-seller of long-distance telephone services. WorldCom is located at Mississippi. After Ebbers bought around 50 other small long-distance firms‚ he set his sight on MCI. Thus MCI WorldCom would have become the second biggest telecom service provider in 1997. MCI WorldCom was formed on September-15-1998
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Chapter 3 Research Methodology Introduction This chapter will illustrate the steps used to examining and testing the research problems. This chapter is enclosed with research design‚ sampling‚ questionnaire design and data collection method. Type of Study Correlational study had been explored in this study. This study was performed focusing on the consumers that have environmental knowledge in Penang. In order to predict the relationship among the attitude‚ product knowledge‚ and promotion strategies
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Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación Facultad de Historia‚ Geografía y Letras Departamento de Inglés Metodología de la Investigación – Profesora Luz Pamela Díaz Tamara Sepúlveda Chandía Research Methodology Problem When people start their English program at UMCE‚ they do not manage the language completely‚ so they tend to speak Spanish (mother tongue) to explain things they do not know how to say in English. So‚ there is a persistent use of their first language in the
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M1 unit 22 research methodology Alice Chalkley For this task I am going to discuss the function of research in my chosen area of interest. Service user - By highlighting gaps in provision‚ services users of health and social care services have been given more responsibility and independence‚ they’ve become more empowered and involved with how services are needed to be improved. Service provider- By highlighting gaps in provision‚ services providers such as the NHS are able
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bankruptcy in 2001‚ Nancy b. Rapoport wrote this essay expressing her unique perspective on the real cause of Enron’s demise. This essay catches the reader’s attention instantly‚ because unlike abundant other articles written on the biggest corporate scandal in American history‚ the author here rejects Jeff Skilling’s (former president of Enron) argument1 of what brought about Enron’s downfall. She instead uses another metaphor‚ arguing that Enron’s downfall was more like Titanic’s- hubris and over reliance
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