Question 1 Answer saved Marked out of 4.00 Flag question Question text Who were the two authors of the book who also appeared in the film ENRON The Smartest Guys in the Room? Select one: a. McLean and McCarthy b. McLean and Elkind c. McCarthy and Elkind d. Shapiro and Mc Lean Question 2 Answer saved Marked out of 4.00 Flag question Question text ENRON executives pushed up their stock prices and then cashed in their multi-million dollar options in a process called Select one: a. mark to market
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"Enron the smartest man in the room" was a very intense story on how a fortune five hundred company CEO’S can get very greedy and turn on there employees. This story is very true and teaches you how to be true to your employees and also other business investors. This story tells you how wrong humanity morals can end up in greed and even death due to guilt. This story takes place with many business and financial advisors and writers who looked into the story and explained it the best they can to
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deregulation led to schemes of market manipulation in 2000 and 2001 by major energy companies‚ including Enron Corporation. The philosophy of egoism emphasizes that decisions on what is right or wrong are based on the choice which best serves the self-interest of the decision maker. This approach says that individuals make choices based on the benefits they gain from them. In the documentary‚ “Enron: The
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room / Lack of Ethics Enron at one time was a Fortune 500 company‚ but in truth it was just a fallacy and a lie for what it truly was‚ an ethically bankrupt company that eventually became a bankrupt company. Henry Taylor‚ a 19th century statesman wrote “Falsehood ceases to be falsehood‚ when the truth is not expected to be spoken”. Enron senior management gets a failing grade on truth and disclosure. The purpose of ethics is to enable recognition of how a particular
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Introduction Enron was one of America’s leading companies prior to its spectacular collapse in 2001. It was frequently named as one of America’s top 10 most admired corporations and best places to work‚ and its board was acclaimed one of the US’ best five‚ according to Fortune magazine. As America’s seventh largest company‚ Enron experienced explosive growth through the 1990s. It had revenues of US$139 ($184) billion‚ US$62 ($82) billion in assets and employed more than 30‚000 people across 20
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summarize in one page or less how you would explain Enron’s ethical meltdown. Ethics refers to “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group; specifically‚ the standards you use to decide what your conduct should be (Dessler‚ 2011).” Secondly ethical decisions always involve questions or morality (Dessler‚ 2011). Anyone that had anything to do with the meltdown at Enron had no ethical standards. Enron had a lack of accounting transparency‚ which enabled the company’s managers
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how the company ’s culture had profound effects on the ethics of its employee? And particularly in this case: how did Enron lose both its economical and ethical status? This question makes the Enron case interesting to us as business ethicists. Enron ethics means that business ethics is a question of organizational "deep" culture rather than of cultural artifacts like ethics codes‚ ethics officers and the like. BackgroundAt the beginning Enron faced a number of financially difficulty years. In 1988
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Enron and Ethics Failure is the best teacher not only for those who fail‚ but also for those who observe the failure. Thus‚ for many businesses the Enron scandal proved to be the greatest teacher. Since the fall of Enron‚ there have been several theories and examinations about why it failed as it was a corporation that no one imagined would ever crash. Based on research to date there are multiple reasons for Enron’s failure; however‚ one that stands out immensely is corporate disregard for ethics
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ENRON Introduction Enron was the country’s largest trader and marketer for electric and natural gas energy. Its core business was buying energy at a negotiated price and later‚ selling the energy when prices increased. As an energy broker‚ Enron provided a service by allowing producers to negotiate a certain price while Enron took the risk that prices would fall below what it bought energy. Buyers of energy also benefited because Enron could ensure the supply of energy. In 2000 Enron was listed
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Question 1: How did the Corporate Culture at Enron contribute to its bankruptcy? The corporate Culture at Enron could have contributed to its bankruptcy in many ways. Its corporate culture supported unethical behavior without question for as long as the behavior resulted in monetary gain for the company. It was describe as having a culture of arrogance that led people to believe that they could handle increasingly greater risk without encountering any danger. Its culture did little to promote
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