Income Manipulation: Enron’s rise and fall General Introduction “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud1.” The importance of values and ethics has always shaped the very fabric of human society. This was evident from the era in which the author of this quote‚ the famous Greek poet Sophocles‚ lived until modern times. In my opinion‚ the famous sayings “honesty is the best policy” and “the truth shall set you free” are invaluable and should be followed by everyone. This pertains
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mwww.elsevier.com/locate/worlddev PII: S0305-750X(99)00160-6 World Development Vol. 28‚ No. 5‚ pp. 789±804‚ 2000 Ó 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0305-750X/00/$ - see front matter The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries CHARLES GORE * United Nations Conference on Trade and Development‚ Geneva‚ Switzerland Summary. Ð The introduction of the Washington Consensus involved not simply a swing from state-led
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Business Information System II The Rise and Fall of Iridium Questions 1. Who was to blame for Iridium ’s failure? Why? At what point could you have known Iridium would fail? 2. What is your evaluation of Iridium ’s system design? What impact did the choices that were made have on subsequent evolution of the venture? 3. What is your evaluation of Iridium ’s organizational design? What changes could you have made to increase the probability of Iridium ’s success? Q1. In the case of Iridium several
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Group 1 * Shaghayegh Davari * Wan-Ting Shao * Ananya Chandra * Niteesh Chinta * Shraddha Rane * Swathi Punreddy The Rise and fall of WorldCom This case study WorldCom is a telecommunications company which was led by CEO‚ Bernard Ebbers‚ and CFO‚ Scott Sullivan. In 1999‚ WorldCom was not meeting Wall Street’s revenue and earnings expectations‚ and it appeared that the coming year would produce more bad news. The
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The Rise and fall of Napster It started as an accident. Shawn Fanning was just experimenting and thinking of an easier to go through a search engine for music. What was a simple idea turned out to be a phenomenon in the Internet world. The creation of Napster led to many problems and brought about new issues that involved the entertainment industry and piracy laws. Napster is a software where a compilation of all of its user’s files are held in a central unit and each user is able to use its
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tribes that once fought and detested each other. His successors established the largest empire in the world. Temüjin‚ which meant "Blacksmith" was raised in a nomad family in the modern day Mongolia in the banks of the river Onon. He was the first born son of Yesugei‚ chieftain of the Kiyat sub-clan of the Borjigin Mongols (Tsatsral Batbayar). His great grand-father was Kabul Khan‚ emperor of the Mongol Empire. The name came from the Tartar’s leader‚ who his father Yesugei killed. He was born clutching
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of the Carolingian dynasty occupied brief part of the medieval era‚ the Carolingian Empire that was established made both a historical and cultural impact on medieval society that would resonate for centuries to come. The Carolingian House of the Franks and their expanding empire initially brought stability and progress to most of Europe‚ as well as pioneering a cultural and intellectual renaissance that influenced the remainder of the Middle Ages. Although there were various Carolingian rulers who
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The rise and fall of Nokia Nokia represent the level of manufacturing industry of Finland in the IT area. Several types of Nokia mobile helped Nokia to open up the market. Back to the old days‚ when Motorola is know as mobile gangster‚ Nokia introduced a clear sound‚ smart appearance‚ with large proportion of screen and scrolling text menu mobile phone‚ which had unprecedented sales‚ at the same time whole world remembered the name “NOKIA”. From1992‚ Nokia introduced
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Case Study The Rise and Fall of WorldcomThis case study is about Bernard Ebbers CEO of Worldcom‚ Inc. and Scott Sullivan CFO of Worldcom‚ Inc. once they were boosted the company growth and they got awards. Later on they made frauds by using their influential tactics on employees and company’s board. Those are Assertiveness: it involves applying legitimate and coercive power to influence others by threatening or giving punishment. This tactic was used by sullivans office where they berated and intimidated
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many differing theories or reasons for how the Carolingians gained legitimacy in the deposition of the Merovingians‚ Moore offers an intriguing opinion. “The usurpation was conceived as a reform of kingship based on theocratic concepts of royal power that have been traced to episcopal social thought. These assertions of royal power came to be suffused with a “rhetoric of reform.” This reforming rhetoric‚ became the guiding principle for the Carolingians‚ but sadly had repercussions for the monarchy
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