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Sports Authority is a sporting goods retailer offering footwear, apparel, fitness, team sports and outdoor recreation. Sports Authority is headquartered in Englewood, CO. Originally founded in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, Sports Authority opened it’s first store in 1987. The company was acquired by Kmart in 1990 and by 1995 The Sports Authority expanded and spun off it’s parent company. Gart Sports merged with Sports Authority in 2003 and by May 2006, all stores operated under the Sports Authority…

The Westing Game is a mystery written by Ellen Raskin and has won the Newberry Award in 1979. The first few pages of the book reveals that there will be many twist and turns and it will not be until the end until the answer is revealed. Very specific tenants were chosen for the Sunset Towers and this is evident in each showing of an apartment by Barney Northrup. Very specific choices were made for the tenants of Sunset Towers, but why? Up on the hill sits the Westing house, just days after…

Benefits of Legal Representation You might assume you don’t need an attorney to represent you in your bicycle accident claim. After all, you are smart and capable of asserting what you want to recover. While representing yourself may seem like an easier route, there are numerous benefits to hiring Los Angeles Bicycle Law to represent you in your claim. Some of the benefits of hiring Los Angeles Bicycle Law include: Knowledge & Skill The lawyers at Los Angeles Bicycle Law have vast experience in…

9 Mergers That Epically Failed The article describes the nine famous corporations that failed to merge. Fairchild (2013) states that “the owner of Arby's bought Wendy's for $2.34 billion” (para. 2). Nevertheless, only after three years, Wendy's sold Arby's. The fail occurred between Bank of America and Countrywide, when the deal cost the bank approximately $40 billion. Kmart and Sears are also among the epic fails due to the considerably dropped revenue of the first one. eBay bought Skype for $2…

Enron was firstly a natural gas pipeline company that combine as the combination of Nebraska and Omaha’s natural gas company, Houston Natural gas and InterNorth. It took 15 years from 1985 to 2000 to climb up into the one of the largest gas company in North America. Behind the successful of the company, it was a story of betrayal and greed of the executives of the largest natural gas company in North America. For example, the plant was moved to Mexico in order to avoid the minimum wages. Also,…

The book, “The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron” was written by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind and was published in 2003. It was all about the company of Enron and the downfall of it all and the scandals associated with it. Enron was an American energy, commodities, and services company which was located in Houston, Texas. At one point in time, it was the 7th largest company worth almost about $70 billion. There were many scandals involved in all of this,…

The film ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room painted a picture of corporate greed and all the practices one might see in the creation of fraud. It dove into personalities of the top executives surrounding the scandal and the lies created to establish a successful persona. The governmental investigation revealed that the intricate entanglements of deceptive communications were fed from near the top of the chain to traders, analyst, and investors. Traders proactively drove the mechanisms that…

During the 1980's, state regulated monopolies were responsible for the manufacture, transmission and sale of electricity and natural gas to customers. However, these monopolies were rather incompetent and unreliable in the eyes of the customers [7]. At the onset of the Corporation, Enron has made claims that it could revolutionize the energy industry, and the Internet [6]. Enron then began to advertise through the means of Wall Street, claiming that energy could be treated as a stock or a bond…

Norman comments about some claims that include situations where citizens testifying at public hearings have accepted cash in exchange for making pro-Wal-Mart statements. In other cases, he claims, groups protesting Wal-Mart expansion have ceased to protest after accepting donations from the company or its partners. Mr. Norman cites an example that happened in 2004 in Tallahassee, FL where a group opposing Wal-Mart’s construction of a store said that a real estate broker representing the…

Standard Oil Company was established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller in Ohio (Exxon). Not too long after, in 1879 Standard bought three-quarters of Vacuum Oil company, which later became Mobil (Exxon). Three years later in 1882, Rockefeller formed Standard Oil into a trust which included the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which later became Exxon, as well as Vacuum, and many others (Exxon). However, following a Supreme Court decision the company was split into 34 unrelated businesses in 1911…