...Ethical Dilemma: Goldman Sachs Was Goldman Sachs Socially Responsible? Pamela Bryant Northcentral University Abstract Illegal and unethical activity was prevalent in the Goldman Sachs administration and the charges filed against them by the SEC were inevitable. The underlying thought at Goldman Sachs amidst the allegations was a social purpose and a contribution to the economic cycle. While there were many gray areas of activity, this research will focus on the investment strategies used to control the clients financial investment gain and in most cases loss. Furthermore, this paper will outline the unethical behavior that was associated with the fraudulent transactions of Goldman Sachs as it related to the clients and public investors. Was Goldman Sachs Socially Responsible? The problem to be investigated is whether Goldman Sachs violated its own Code of Ethics in dealing with clients and public investors. According to the Preamble of the Business Code of Ethics, Goldman Sachs believes the highest standard of integrity should be included as the focal element in a business relationship. Regardless of how perceptive one might be in understanding the investment strategies of Goldman Sachs or even its relationship to the difficulties of the market, it is clear that not all activities were in accordance with the good old-fashioned law of principle and ethics. Background Goldman Sachs history has never been clear of controversy, dating back to its inception in...
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...effectively helps in motivating the employees and improves communication processes both internal and outside public relations. Let us now look at the goals which Goldman Sachs has set for itself, identified from its vision & mission statements, business principles and its various public reports. * To provide superior returns to its shareholders. Goldman Sachs believes that profitability is critical to achieving superior returns, building their capital, and attracting and keeping the best people. This is a very quantifiable goal and its measured every quarter and is a primary indicator of the health of the firm. It thus relates to measurability of the SMART model1. * Strive to anticipate the rapidly changing needs of its clients and to develop new services to meet those needs. Goldman Sachs is primarily in the service industry which is highly competitive. Thus to ensure that it stays ahead of the competition, it is imperative for Goldman Sachs to continuously evaluate the requirements of its clients and ensure that they are being met.It thus focuses on specificity as mentioned in the SMART criteria. * To identify and recruit the very best person for every job and to offer them the opportunity to develop their career faster than anywhere else. Goldman Sachs is a people driven firm and consider them as their...
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...Executive summary – Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world. They report their activities in the following four business segments: • Investment Banking • Institutional client services • Investing & lending • Investment risk management Goldman Sachs commits people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. The firm also provides mergers and acquisitions advice, underwriting services, asset management, and prime brokerage to its clients, which include corporations, governments and individuals. The firm also engages in market making and private equity deals, and is a primary dealer in the United States Treasury security market. Former employees include Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, as well as Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of Canada since 2008, Mario Draghi, governor of the European Central Bank and Mario Monti, the Prime Minister of Italy. As of 2009, Goldman Sachs employed 31,701 people worldwide...
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...Gray: The Goldman Sachs Standard Are there ethics in big business? Or does big business answer to a different power? This can be a rather gray area. The problem to be investigated is the Goldman Sachs Standard and the ethics (or lack thereof) that exist in the company. The original market strategy was to provide loans for small businesses and then sell these loans as commercial paper. (Jennings, 2012) In the 1920s, this became a tough market in which to make a profit. So, to borrow a phrase, when the going gets tough, the tough change strategies. In the late 1920s, Goldman changed its investment strategy to layered investments. This strategy involves creating a company and then personally purchasing a large amount of the shares. Goldman would generally purchase approximately 90 percent of these shares. The public, unaware of the original purchase, only saw a profitable company so they eagerly purchased not only the remaining initial shares, but also purchased shares sold by Goldman at a higher rate. Goldman would also purchase some of these to artificially inflate the market even further. This enabled Goldman to make money off of the secondary sales. Goldman was lying to its clients because the company it created was not truly as profitable as the inflated share price would indicate. It was fully aware of this and continued to layer additional companies into the strategy that would appear successful only as long as the market continued to grow. Goldman was lying...
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...Case Study for Designing Channel Systems Cardenas Mike Lawrence BSBA MM 3-1 Submitted to: Ms. Anna Corina G. Kagaoan Introduction Business paper was initially presented more than 100 years prior, when New York vendors started to undercut their term commitments to merchants that went about as go betweens. These merchants would buy the notes at a rebate from their standard worth and after that pass them on to banks or different financial specialists. The borrower would then reimburse the speculator a sum equivalent to the standard estimation of the note.Marcus Goldman of Goldman Sachs was the primary merchant in the currency business sector to buy business paper, and his organization got to be one of the greatest business paper merchants in America taking after the Civil War. The Federal Reserve additionally started exchanging business paper alongside treasury bills from that time until World War II to raise or lower the level of financial stores coursing among banks.After the war, business paper started to be issued by a developing number of organizations, and in the long run it turned into the head obligation instrument in the currency market. A lot of this development was encouraged by the ascent of the shopper acknowledge industry, the same number of Mastercard backers would give cardholder offices and administrations to traders utilizing cash produced from business paper. The card backers would then buy the receivables put on the cards by clients from these dealers...
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...* Which forces in Goldman Sachs external environment have accounted most for The fortunes of fate “that the company- indeed, the investment banking industry – has experienced since 2008? Ans: The external environment is everything outside organizations boundaries that might affect it. Included in the external environment that surrounds an organization, is the economic dimension, which encompasses the overall health and stability of the economic climate that the company operates in. In the case of Goldman Sachs, the firm was inevitably touched by the global financial crisis and was forced to convert from an investment bank to a holding-company bank in 2008. Although executives attempted damage control, there were factors in play beyond their control, causing Goldman Sachs company stock price to fall approximately 50% at the height of the financial collapse. * Explain the roles of Goldman’s partners, both as owners and as employees, in forming and managing its internal environment. Ans: 470 of Goldman Sachs 35000 employees enjoy profit-sharing benefits, as partial owner of the financial giant. The author also states that the owners of a business are those who hold legal property rights over the organization, so we can interpret that these 470 select individuals play a dual-role in Goldman Sachs. On one end, their performance as employees directly affects the company profitability and customer retention, and on the other, those same individuals reap the benefit of their...
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...11/12/2009 MANAGEMENT 573 GOLDMAN SACHS CASE STUDY Brady Gear, Adam Heying, Maxwell Kagan, Kelly Schilling, & Joseph Quinn Wingerd Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 4 History ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 The Nineteenth Century ............................................................................................................................ 4 The Twentieth Century .............................................................................................................................. 5 More Recent Times ................................................................................................................................... 6 Who’s Who List of Former Goldman Sachs Executives ................................................................................ 7 Business Segments ........................................................................................................................................ 9 Investment Banking ................................................................................................................................ 10 Financial Advisory ............................................................................................................
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...9-406-002 REV: MARCH 22, 2007 BORIS GROYSBERG SCOTT SNOOK Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs Our people have driven Goldman Sachs’ success for 130 years through sustained, superb execution across a range of markets and products. The best way to maintain that advantage is by recruiting, training and mentoring people as we always have—one at a time, with great care. We want Goldman Sachs to be a magnet for the very best people in the world—from new graduates to senior hires. At the same time, we are focusing on developing our very deep bench of talented people and improving and extending our skills. We are, for instance, placing young leaders in demanding positions that stretch their abilities. We are also devoting more time and attention to the formal training and development of leaders, particularly senior leaders. — Henry M. Paulson, “Letter to Shareholders,” Goldman Sachs, 1999 Annual Report Late on the evening of November 7, 1999, a small cadre of senior leaders huddled around a conference table on the 22nd floor of 85 Broad Street, deep in the heart of New York City’s financial district. The heady atmosphere and high-octane blend of intensity, anticipation, and quiet professionalism were not unusual for one of the world’s most storied investment banks. Tonight, however, eleven of Goldman Sachs’ finest were working not on a major acquisition or IPO, but on a revolutionary leadership development plan for the firm. In June 1999, Goldman’s Management...
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...(plus delivery) (plus delivery) The Great American Bubble Machine Fřǿm țěčħ șțǿčķș țǿ ħįģħ ģǻș přįčěș, Ģǿŀđmǻň Șǻčħș ħǻș ěňģįňěěřěđ ěvěřỳ mǻjǿř mǻřķěț mǻňįpųŀǻțįǿň șįňčě țħě Ģřěǻț Đěpřěșșįǿň -- ǻňđ țħěỳ'řě ǻbǿųț țǿ đǿ įț ǻģǻįň BỲ MǺȚȚ ȚǺİBBİ | Ǻpřįŀ 5, 2010 Șħǻřě Țẅěěț Șħǻřě Čǿmměňț Ěmǻįŀ ADVERTISEMENT Victor Juhasz The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/thegreatamericanbubblemachine20100405 AROUND THE WEB 1/61 1/15/2015 The Great American Bubble Machine | Rolling Stone vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates. '80ș Șțǻřș Ỳǿų Ẅǿň'ț Řěčǿģňįżě Țǿđǻỳ 5 Mįňǿř 'Șțǻř Ẅǻřș' Ǻčțǿřș Ỳǿų Đįđň'ț Řěǻŀįżě Ẅěřě İň Ěvěřỳțħįňģ Mųșįčįǻňș Ẅħǿ Ǻřěň’ț Ẅħǿ Ỳǿų Țħįňķ Țħěỳ Ǻřě Fǻmǿųș Șǿňģș Țħǻț Ẅěřě Ẅřįțțěň Ǻbǿųț Čěŀěbřįțįěș ȘİĐĚBǺŘ Invasion of the Home Snatchers By now, most of us know the major players. As George Bush's last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously selfserving plan to funnel trillions...
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...Organization/Introduction: The organization that I chose to discuss for my final project paper is Goldman Sachs, the renowned American bulge bracket investment bank. In addition to bringing many companies public, Goldman is also a publicly traded financial institution headquartered in New-York city. The company’s main line of business is in helping corporations and government institutions raise capital, providing underwriting services and mergers and acquisitions advice. More specifically, Goldman Sachs specializes in investment banking, asset management, and trading and securities transaction services. Goldman has an employee head-count of approximately 35,700 people and operates mainly in the U.S, Asia and Europe. The company trades on the New-York Stock Exchange; using the ticker symbol GS. Similar and in some respects worse than other investment banks, Goldman Sachs profits fell in 2011; reportedly by as much as 58% in the final quarter when compared to the same period a year earlier. It is well documented that the financial services industry has been cutting jobs post 2008 financial meltdown. Just last year, Goldman Sachs slashed some 2,400 jobs while setting aside an approximate $367,000 in compensation per employee, down 15% from an average of $430,000 in 2010. One distressed employee referred to the reward/compensation cut as a ‘bloodbath’. From all reports it seems like the culture and morale at Goldman, the most profitable bank in Wall Street history, is at an all time low; particularly...
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...Melisa Schellhamer, April 13, 2010 Melisa Schellhamer, April 13, 2010 SEC files a fraud case against Goldman Sachs, an industry leader, is now being investigated for unfair investing scandal. SEC files a fraud case against Goldman Sachs, an industry leader, is now being investigated for unfair investing scandal. Goldman Sach’s Case # 5 AC805 Advanced Management Accounting Control Systems Goldman Sach’s Case # 5 AC805 Advanced Management Accounting Control Systems The Goldman Sachs fraud case opened by the Securities and Exchange is one of the items that were highlighted by the down turn of the economy in the last few years. Goldman Sachs has vigorously denied any wrongdoing, but the case against them seems fairly tight if the information currently provided is accurate. At the center of all of this Fabrice Tourre. Tourre is an employee of Goldman Sachs that has been charged with fraud. The nature of the charge is that as an employee of Goldman Sachs he helped create a Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) that was not disclosed to potential investors. More damning than anything however that seized email correspondence is seems to point to the fact that he was fully aware of what he was doing. How this all ties in is that a CDO is an investment vehicle whose performance is directly related to a set of assets. In regards to this case the CDO was a family of securities that were backed by subprime residential mortgages. As this is considered risky...
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...four markets everyone with the unique features, but thus unites them the potential generated by changes in political systems of these countries. As a result of these changes there was a consumer demand, which is formed by 43% of the population of the whole world. In roughly developing countries of BRIC there are five of the ten largest cities of planet where concentrated the huge amount of capital and millions of consumers who are aspiring up on social and economic ladder. The term BRIC was included into a business lexicon in 2003 after the economist of Goldman Sachs investment bank Jim O'Neill described future economic picture of the world. In his opinion, by 2050 the economic capacity of these four countries will allow them to become dominating economies, and to surpass in scales not only economy of the USA, but also economy of all of the countries of Western Europe taken together. However, on forecasts of experts of Goldman Sachs, it can happen and earlier - not through forty, and in twenty years. It should be noted that the sequence of capital letters in an abbreviation is important only for its harmony. So, at Brazil the smallest gross domestic product from all "four", and at China, on the contrary, - the biggest. In 2010...
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...the situation of the country at that moment), government policies, financial requirements, labor markets, taxation, legal environment (what are the laws in that specific country), crime and corruption (if this is a safe place to work), infrastructure, foreign trade environment and current and future costs of building a business and brand (is it profitable to expand there). 2. From the list of top “candidates” what data should you collect on each market? The marketing department should collect data for each market about overall population and target buyer population, spending power per capita, category penetration rates, overall growth of categories, share of each brands, media costs, previous marketing expenditures, category profitability, competitor metrics. Thanks to this data, Black Angus Steakhouse can build predictive models in order to know which market will be the most profitable and what will be their future position in each market. 3. What market entry strategy would you suggest ? I would suggest a form of licensing called franchising. It consists in allowing local firms to purchase the right to use its processes and brand in their restaurant. Indeed, McDonald's use this market entry strategy and it has been very successful because local firms adapt their products to local culture. For example, in India, there is no beef in hamburgers or in France,...
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...Identify and explain the characteristics of world class marketing organizations. Illustrate with examples of your choice. To claim to become a world class marketing organization there are certain qualitative and quantitative characteristics which should be possessed by the company. This section of the assignment will discuss these characteristics in detail. Every organization aspires to be a World Class Marketing Organization. World class Marketing organizations identify the needs of customers and develop brands that give lasting value to the customer. These organizations strategically segment the market and target each group separately. They build a very strong bond with each group so that they know exactly how the customer will respond to marketing activities. They analyze the activities of the competitors well enough to develop a competitive edge over its competitors and are very futuristic. They win the mind share of customers and become the champion of customers, so that by no means can competitors capture their customers. They have a rich pipeline of product improvements and new products which enables the organization to strengthen its brands further. These organizations also focuses on SMART Marketing, Marketing Mix, and Objectives while identifying any variances in actual versus planned business performance and plans well ahead the actions it should take to exploit the situation. They know precisely the Return on Investment for each marketing mix element and drive...
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...ABHILASH GOYAL, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COCA COLA Supply Chain Operations Excellence Trainee OTHER COMPANIES INTERVIEWED WITH: ITC and Schlumberger Program- BTECH HIGHLIGHTS OF MY CAMPUS STAY CPI: 8.8 Volunteer in Ritambhara, participated in 2-3 robotics events etc. PRE-PLACEMENT PREPARATION - When it came to resume building, I mentioned my internship (which was in Samsung), projects I did and the co-curricular activities - I was confident about my aptitude and was focussing mainly core and analytics. - I didn’t prepare for GD but finally had to give GD in Coca Cola, ITC and Schlumberger. So you can never be too sure of what comes your way during the placements. PLACEMENT EXPERIENCE - I started my placement journey by getting shortlisted in Capital One on Day 1. They shortlisted 125 candidates on the basis of resume. Then they took a case study interview and reduced the number to 30. Then again took an aptitude test but finally didn’t give offer to anyone. - Then came Coca Cola on Day 2. They organised GD in the groups of ten each and then there was a single interview of about half an hour which mainly consisted of HR based questions. The topic of the GD was “Are Engineering students wasting time in studies ?”. The interview mainly focussed on the commitment to work with them and asked whether I did any activity depicting leadership skills. - Coca Cola shortlisted candidates with medium profile like moderate CPI with few extracurrecs. I had a target of gettng...
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