Black Sox Scandal

Prize and the Booty - Case Study On the 25 February, 1603 Jacob van Heemskerck and his crew attacked the Santa Catarina, a merchant ship from Portugal which carried a very highly priced cargo of trade goods. The total price was more than three million guilders. This created discussion about the legitimacy of the attack on the Portuguese merchant ship. In order to justify Jacob van Heemskercks actions, Grotius’ literary works have to be taken into consideration as he addressed different laws…

Introduction The key tenant of choosing a specific firm for analysis, is one having the history of outsourcing their Information Technology (IT), to a third party, only to regret the decision, and return, or back source, the IT service. An excellent example being the current largest bank in the United States; JP Morgan Chase. In 2004 JP Morgan Chase cancelled the remainder of a seven year, $5 billion IT contract with IBM. When the outsourcing deal was done in 2001, it was heralded as the…

Pablo Escobar was the quintessential druglord. It is estimated that at the height of his career - if you can call it that - Escobar brought in $420 million a week through drug trafficking and other illegal and morally questionable activities. Escobar achieved such great wealth through his dealings that it is said he lost $2.1 billion (you read that right) every year and didn’t even feel it. The Search Bloc finally captured and killed Escobar on December 2nd, 1993, well over 20 years ago.…

Hizmete Özel / Confidential Hizmete Özel / Confidential MGMT 512: Corporate Governance Sultan Orman: 0055134 Corporate Failure: Toshiba Accounting Scandal (2015) Summary of the Case: Everything began with the results of an independent report created by a committee of people consisting of independent accountants and lawyers in July 2015. The CEO of one of the leading companies in electronics and technology sector, Toshiba from Japan, announced that he is resigning of his…

Prudential The time when the protagonist Arthur Ryan was brought in as CEO, Prudential was charged with the largest investor fraud in US history. Prudential had defrauded investors of close to $8 billion and eventually had to shell out $371 million as settlements and fines. The most common solution to overcome the economic condition is layoffs. The critical time in highly competitive market leads Arthur Ryan to downsizing environment (p.1). Management decision in downsizing creates gap between…

another 180,000 registered voters. Suspected noncitizens were then sent letters requiring them to confirm their citizenship in order to retain their voter rights. Critics of the initiative said the measure was effectively a voting purge targeting black and Hispanic communities--87 percent of the 2,600 voters are minorities--which tend to vote…

There’s no known cure for greed. That said, the fall of Enron was inevitable from its inception, for whichever way the head goes, the body follows and with Ken Lay as the head, one could expect nothing less. Can a rotten tree produce good fruit? My initial response to the movie, “The Smartest Guys in the Room”, was to discuss Lay and Skilling. But a more careful consideration of the matter, I had to admit that they really weren’t the problem, even though they were the deed doers. None of…

For the Ethical Violation Summary I chose to do Kenneth Lay - Enron. Kenneth joined enron gas company in 1985. If you don’t know enron is a gas company, and a service company based in houston, texas. He worked there for a year and was named chairman and chief officer of Enron. Lay worked there of about 16 years so about in 2001. After kenneth worked there after while he got sent to prison for selling large amounts of Enron stock in september and october of 2001. Security new that something…

Behind closed door deals, bribes, scandal, trades, mass corporations, sounds like the next top crime show, but this is no show. This is the Oil Reserves Scandal also known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. The Teapot Dome Scandal took place in the early 1920s. It was the secret leasing of federal oils by the Secretary of Interior, Albert Fall. After President Harding switched the oil reserve lands from the Navy to the Department of Interior in 1921, Albert Fall secretly gave Harry F. Sinclair from…

of the clan, thus leading to their membership going down. Levitt and Dubner then explain how the Ku Klux Klan’s power came through information and when they were exposed they lost all that they had. They then compare the Ku Klux Klan’s information scandal to the internet and how the price of life insurance began to go down because of the creation of websites…