Adelphia Case Assignment Kirstie Fehrenbach BUS 101 AH 1. The owners are the primary stakeholders in this case. 2. I know that the owners are the primary stakeholders because the illegal inside dealings that the Rigas family was involved with negatively affected not only themselves‚ but also their other shareholders. The most obvious illustration of this blowback is the arrest of Rigas family members and the bevy of lawsuits brought up against them by other shareholders. Consequently‚ the
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Adelphia Case Summary The Allegations: Prosecutors say members of the cable company’s founding family and two former executives looted the firm "on a massive scale‚" spending company funds on personal expenses‚ such as a $12.8 million golf course. The firm has been accused of hiding business relationships between Adelphia and entities tied to the founders and for inflating its financial results. Who’s Who: • John J. Rigas‚ Adelphia’s founder • Timothy Rigas‚ former CFO • Michael Rigas‚
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Rigas‚ the son of Greek immigrants‚ founded the company that would grow and become Adelphia Communications Corporation in Coudersport‚ Pennsylvania‚ when he purchased a $300 license to wire Coudersport for cable television services. In 1972‚ he and his brother‚ Gus‚ created Adelphia Communications Corporation. Adelphia is Greek for “Brothers”; this signifies their Greek heritage as a corporation run by brothers. Adelphia has always been a “family” business. Over the decades as the cable industry began
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A critical appraisal of stakeholder analysis: Defining the stakeholder: The development sector is awash with participatory methodology‚ in part as a result of and a continued commitment to the Paris Declaration‚ but equally as a means to lend credence and legitimacy to development activities and interventions. One such methodology is the stakeholder analysis which is‚ agreeably‚ rather a nice tool and very much in keeping with current development themes of local empowerment and participation.
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For this case study we are asked to draw upon deontological ethics‚ and discuss how Adelphia Communications’ executives violated the trust of the company’s shareholders and the trust of that of the larger public. To do this we first need to take a look at deontological ethics and how the philosophy of deontological ethics affects the choices that were made in the Adelphia Communications’ case. We will also look at the Adelphia case and examine how its executives violated the trust of the company’s
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Introduction In 1952‚ John Rigas founded Adelphia Communications Corporation with a $300 license‚ took the company public in 1986‚ and built it up by acquiring other systems in the 1990s. In March 2002 Founder‚ chairman‚ and CEO of Adelphia Communications Corporation 78 year old John Rigas‚ his two sons‚ and other Adelphia executives were arrested and charged with looting the nation’s sixth largest cable company on a massive scale. Adelphia Communication Corporation whose revenue exceeded $2.9 billion
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Trident University Case 1- The Adelphia Scandal ETH501: Business Ethics Dr. Bonnie Adams 4/13/2014 Introduction Aldelphia Communications Corporation was founded in 1952 by John Rigas and two partners. Rigas began to grow the business and by July 1‚ 1986 Adelphia was ready to go public. The company quickly grew into the sixth largest cable company in the United States. Its annual revenue exceeded $2.9 billion with offices located in 32 states and Puerto Rico (Barlup‚ Hanne & Stuart‚ 2009). With
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The Adelphia Scandal The Dawn of Adelphia Adelphia was founded in 1952 by John Rigas and his brother Gus Rigas in Coudersport‚ Pennsylvania with the purchase of their first cable franchise for $300. After 20 years‚ the Rigas brothers incorporated their company under the name Adelphia which derived its name from a Greek word which means brothers‚ an apt corporate title for a business that would employ generations of the Rigas family. Adelphia was a cable television company and built its success
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Adelphia Communications Scandal Adelphia Communications was the nation’s 6th largest cable company and became yet another corporation involved in a scandal that resulted in their downfall. Adelphia’s services included high speed cable internet service‚ cable TV service‚ and long distance phone service. Adelphia had more than five million subscribers to these services. The scandal consisted of the Rigas family‚ the family that founded the company‚ and two other executives fraudulently excluding over
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Adelphia Cable Bruce Dawson Principles of Management Mgmt.230 "Adelphia is one of the nation’s leading cable companies with more than 5.3 million residential customers nationwide. In addition to cable entertainment Adelphia offers digital cable‚ high-speed internet access‚ long distance telephone service‚ and home security" (Adelphia). The leadership of this company currently consists of 18 officers. One officer for each of the five regions Adelphia covers. One officer in each of the
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