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In 1999 Serena Williams won a singles victory at the U.S. Open, which made her the second black woman to win a Grand Slam title. The first being Althea Gibson. As an african american tennis player Serena has overcome and dealt with many difficulties. She has been told that she and her sister Venus (also a tennis player) are arrogant and unfriendly to others on the court and off the court. Serena is well known for her tennis skill and all the events that she has won at a young age. She also…

Even then, she did more than sit behind a table and discuss current events. Jones was president of the NASDAQ traded "National Association of Professional Women (NAPW)." It took her until 1992 to pay off all her debt. Once she did, she vowed not to fall into the same traps again. She knew that just because she made more money, that did not mean she would…

Bernard Madoff founded Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. This firm grew to become one of the top market maker business on Wall Street ("Bernard Madoff"). He sat on the board of Nation Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ); and he helped advise the Securities and Exchange (SEC) on trading securities. On Wall Street, he was widely loved, and he even formed close bonds with a few of his clients. None of them could have possibly known that Bernard Madoff was…

A Madoff Scandal – A Ponzi Scheme In 1899, Brooklyn bookkeeper William Miller deceived investors with more than twenty million dollars in today’s money (Altman, 2009). Miller is considered the first person to successfully use this scheme in the United States (Altman, 2009). However, the scheme is named after another practitioner who promised a fifty percent return on investment within ninety day, Charles Ponzi (Altman, 2009). Even though the scheme is named after Ponzi, the essential…

I have selected Bernard Madoff, stock broker and financial adviser at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities and he was a former chairman of NASDAQ as an unethical leader. He promised investors large returns on their investment. He started a Ponzi Scheme that pays its investors by recruiting new investor so that the principal they pay can be used to pay older investors. He would let the investors know how they are making periodically without any real returns. He told them that it was due to…

The NASDAQ file topped on March 10, 2000, at 5048, about twofold finished the earlier year. Comfortable market's pinnacle, a few of the main innovative organizations, for example, Dell and Cisco put in gigantic offer requests on their stocks, starting frenzy…

Name Starbucks Coffee Company Industries served Restaurants (Coffeehouses) Geographic areas served Worldwide (21,366 coffeehouses in more than 63 countries) Headquarters Seattle, Washington, United States Current CEO Howard Schultz Revenue $16.44 billion (2014) 10.6% increase over $14.86 billion (2013) Profit $2.06 billion (2014) 23,396.59% increase over $8.8 million (2013) Employees 191,000 (2014) Main Competitors Caribou Coffee Company, Costa Coffee, Dunkin' Brands Group, Green Mountain…

Introduction/Overview For the class Stock-Trak simulation, I was given $1 million dollars to invest however I choose to. I made all trades on the week on February 5, 2018, and the report was conducted following the close of the market on April 27, 2018. After the near-three month simulation, my portfolio lost $3,509.83. When choosing what to purchase, I made sure to diversify my portfolio. Diversifying is a risk-reducing strategy in which investments are spread out among various industries to…

Phar-Mor Inc. was a discount pharmaceutical chain founded in 1982 by Michael Monus. The first store was opened in Youngstown, Ohio as an affiliate of Giant Eagle, a family-owned grocery chain ran by David Shapira. Shapira was a friend of Monus and will eventually become his business partner. Phar-Mor’s business tactic was to sell large quantities of merchandise in exchange for a small profit margin. The company would buy high volumes of products from manufacturers for cheap and then sell them…

Tesla was founded by two Americans Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning; Eberhard as an engineer and Tarpenning as an entrepreneur. In 1996 they founded NuvoMedia a lithium ion battery company which inspired the idea of a lithium ion battery powered car; by 2000 they sold the company for $187,000 and they used this money to buy AC propulsion a company that built electric sports cars called tzero. Together Eberhard and AC propulsion made a lithium-ion version of the tzero. Though Eberhard and…