Lewinsky scandal

From the case, we know that the Imclone company was almost destroyed due to the conspiracy of Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic. The fact is that, in 2001, 28th 0f December, SEC rejected the approval of a kind of medicine. However, before this big day, CEO and her stockbroker sold their stock, making the share price plunged. Thus, Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic were convicted of conspiracy, making false statement and interfere with a public function. At the same time, Lawrence Stewart, an…

The article, “The Talent Myth,” by Malcolm Gladwell analyzes the connection between hiring, retaining, and disproportionately promoting employees based on their inherent talents or potential to succeed, an atmosphere which challenges societal norms of rewarding employees based on experience and performance. Not a fan of this myth, Gladwell claims an organization that supports this environment lacks tacit knowledge, promotes narcissism, and creates a decentralized organization system. While the…

Introduction - Historic Enron Financial Scandal The merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth produced Enron in 1985 which started off slowly specializing in the natural gas and then grew to start increasing its product range. Kenneth Lay founded Enron and became Enron’s Chairman and CEO. However, Enron management aggressively decided the need to grow faster, increase investor’s confidence, attract more investments and increase their credit rating. In order to achieve their vision, the…

In the early 2000s, the business world was rocked by a series of scandals in the business sector and many of which involved suspicious accounting activities. One of the largest of these failures was a company known as Enron. Due to their involvement with Enron, the Enron debacle is sometimes referred to as the Enron/ Arthur Andersen scandal. The inclusion of Arthur Andersen in the Enron scandal was due in part to the fact that Andersen handled the accounting for Enron for approximately sixteen…

Politically, Leo Braudy witnessed many life-changing events in the world during his post-grad education. With the assassination of John F. Kennedy happening the same year as his achievement of a master's at Yale University. Also in 1972 the Watergate Scandal was a happening while Braudy was working on his Ph.D. Socially, the 1960’s was an…

one that shows how approval of the president can affect the impeachment process as well as how the nature of the scandal or events in it can skew what the public decides to pay attention to. In the Whitewater Scandal, Bill and the First Lady, Hillary Clinton. While Bill Clinton was the Attorney General of Arkansas, he made a deal with Jim McDougal and his wife, Susan. They became business partners. Their partnership was called the Whitewater Development Corporation. During this partnership, they…

Why you might ask, is he held in so little regard? During his presidency, Harding allowed appointed friends and family, known as the spoils system, to official positions which allowed for a great amount of corruption. Such as, the Veterans Bureau Scandal. In which Harding allowed for the corrupt leader to escape to Europe as well as another member of the board to flee Washington D.C. and his name was removed from documents and presidential trips. President Harding brings to mind many attributes…

One of the most common methods of enhanced interrogation is waterboarding. Waterboarding is when the prisoner is strapped to a gurney inclined at an angle about 10 or 12 degrees. Once strapped in, water is poured on a cloth covering the prisoners mouth and nose. They pour the water for no more then 40 seconds at a time (“Interrigation”, par. 16). Waterboarding much like most of the methods are used in last resort when the prisoner no longer provides information (Rosso, 389). With waterboarding…

In current business world, the magnitude of the corporate scandal is huge. In the past 15 years, many directors have breached their fiduciary and legal duty that caused many people loses their money. For instance, the amount of money that lost by the shareholders and stakeholders in Enron Scandal, Lehman Brother Scandal, WorldCom Scandal, Tyco Scandal, Satyam Scandal, and Bernie Madoff Scandal are more than $200 billion. The company can sue the company's director if they breach fiduciary and…

Boston Tea Party The British East Indian Company went into debt after having corrupt management and becoming involved in a war that cost them a great deal of money. This caused me and another seventeen million pounds to be packed into chests and stored in a warehouse. We all started to lose hope as the days went by and we remained unsold. Then an unlikely hero emerged. His name is Lord North, the prime minister of Britain. He originally put a tax on us that resulted in Dutch tea to be smuggled…