...The Fairytale, All or Nothing Lana Spracklin Business 610 Organizational Behavior Dr. Charlene Anderson April 30, 2012 The Fairytale, All or Nothing Black or white, up or down, right or wrong, and all or nothing, morality and ethics must consist of exactness. Like Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman”, I too have always desired the fairytale. My fairytale is the promise to me of the “American Dream”, a beautiful home, a new car in the driveway, and a white picket fence. I envisioned a fun-loving family and a lucrative career in an atmosphere surrounded by colleagues who think and act in a way which is morally conscious. Establishing high ethical standards are key in creating a positive atmosphere in all organizations. There are a multitude of influences, both internal and external which impact ethical behavior within businesses. All businesses can influence employee’s ethical behavior by developing rules and guidelines which are based on strong foundation of moral standards. In a recent edition of Ethical Corporation’s Magazine, in an article titled “Morally bankrupt or great place to work?” Mallen Baker quotes a former Goldman Sachs partner as blogging, “many people in the past few years had told her that the firm was emphasizing profits over character,” (Baker, 2012). These actions are not the position I would expect from such a major business leader. Ethical issues are questioned by the public...
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...Karen may have an action against ABBBW for her broken arm. The occupier-occupant relationship is an established duty case. The facts also clearly establish breach by stating that ABBBW had ‘carelessly forgotten to put up a sign’. Finally, causation is clear from the statement that Karen tripped ‘due to this instability’. The only issue which must be addressed is whether the legislative presumption of contributory negligence is applicable to Karen. Contributory negligence Section 95(1) of the Civil Law (Wrongs) Act (CLWA) states that contributory negligence will be presumed if the injured person was intoxicated at the time of the accident. It is noted that Karen enters the waterhole after consuming a litre of wine. Although other factors which influence the effects of alcohol are not mentioned, such as Karen’s body mass, the large quantity of wine consumed means that ABBBW would probably not have a problem establishing intoxication. However, Karen could rebut this presumption by referring to s 95(2)(a), which notes that contributory negligence will not be assumed if the plaintiff can prove on the balance of probabilities that his or her intoxication did not contribute to the accident. The facts simply state that Karen lost her balance ‘due to the instability’ of the waterhole and no indication is given that her intoxication made the accident more likely. Without evidence to the contrary, Karen would likely recover in full for her broken arm. Karen v ABBBW (2) ABBBW...
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...Medicare Fraud: The History, Incidence, Costs and Institutional Remedies INTRODUCTION In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare Act into law. The purpose was to provide healthcare to individuals the age of 65 or older or individuals under the age of 65 diagnosed with specific medical conditions (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2013). The original intent was to provide immediate payment to those providing medical services for the less fortunate. The Medicare Act has since been revised to meet the current needs of the American population as well as the United States economy. In part, these revisions included identifying, combating, establishing punishment (criminal laws) and prevention for Medicare Fraud. This paper will provide a brief overview of the Medicare fraud history, incidence, costs and institutional remedies. MEDICARE FRAUD: HISTORY AND DEFINITION Fraudulent activities against the government were first addressed during the Civil War. The False Claims Act (qui tam statute), also known as the Lincoln Act, was passed during this time frame. The intent was to prevent the Union Army from being a victim of supplier fraud. Citizens were given, “the ability to file suits on behalf of the US government whenever they spotted fraud” (Medicare Fraud Center, 2015). The citizens were rewarded with a portion of the monetary fines (issued to the defendant) for addressing the crime. Currently, similar rewards remain in effect for reporting Medicare...
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...Lawrence Technological University College of Management Safi S. Alsanoosy FIN- 6063 April-16-2012 Instructor: Dr. David Alldice Contents A- Introduction 3 B- Causes of financial Crisis 2007-2008 3 i- Role of mortgage lenders 4 ii- Role of mortgage Borrowers 5 iii- Role of investment bankers 5 iv- Role of Credit rating agencies 7 v- Role of CDO Investors and hedge funds 8 C- Impact of crisis on financial institutions and Lehman Brothers 8 D- Measures to mitigate financial crisis 11 E- Conclusion 15 F- References 17 A- Introduction The subprime mortgage crisis happened in the U.S. financial system into the most horrible recession from the time when the Great Depression. This report tracks how the subprime mortgage crisis outspread, disturbing first the housing sector and then the economy on the whole. When banks started lending to subprime borrowers, it looked immense. Unexpectedly, anyone could get a house through a mortgage loan, even with modest or no money down payment. Nevertheless not the entire of those mortgage borrowers were high-quality nominees for the mortgage loan. The defaults of these subprime mortgage borrowers helped lash out the subprime crisis. (Rudd, 2009). The circumstances of the mortgage markets became more deteriorated due to the involvement of Investment Banks in underwriting the mortgage loans. The amplified exploitation of the secondary mortgage markets by lenders further to the numeral of subprime mortgages...
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...Section 7: Conclusion Section China and the World: Scenarios to 2025 7 Conclusion Given the importance of China today, there can Wild cards are low probability events which be no doubt that the determination of Chinese would have a significant impact if they were to leadership to maintain the course of reform will occur. In the case of China they could include : be a decisive factor in the global future. It is • A possible Taiwan conflict : equally true that the support of other global How would China react if Taiwan were to players and their preparedness to welcome declare independence ? For many years China in its gradual rise in greatness will have a independence was not an issue as the direct impact on how China emerges. Given the Kuomintang rulers of Taiwan claimed they close connection between China and global were the real government of China and welfare, these scenarios indicate that outsiders had no interest in relinquishing their claim must appreciate the scale of the challenges on sovereignty. But independence has faced by the government in Beijing, and that become an issue with the rise of generations those in China need to comprehend the born and raised on the island. They have sensitivities of outsiders to its rise. successfully established democratic rule and some do not want to be subject to rule Raising awareness of differing sensitivities is an important role that scenarios can play. from a distant capital. The implications of...
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...Global Financial Crisis Impact and Challenges Shaikh Faisal. Assistant Professor Dr. Rafiq Zakaria Campus Millennium Institute of Management Aurangabad Introduction: The global financial system has undergone a period of unprecedented turmoil. Market confidence dwindled and has remained fragile, leading to the collapse or near-collapse of large, and in some cases systemically important, financial institutions, and calling forth public intervention in the financial system on a scale not seen for decades. The financial system has been severely weakened by mounting losses on impaired and illiquid assets, uncertainty regarding the availability and cost of funding, and further deterioration of loan portfolios as global economic growth slows. Finding a purely private sector resolution of financial market strains has become increasingly difficult, while case-by-case intervention by authorities has not alleviated market concerns. In response, more comprehensive approaches are now being considered or implemented to bring about a more orderly process of deleveraging and to break the adverse feedback loop between the financial system and the global economy. Such a comprehensive approach—if well coordinated among countries—should be sufficient to restore confidence and the proper functioning of markets and avert a more protracted downturn in the global economy. Significant writedowns have already been realized, but more may lie ahead. . . The estimate of aggregate write downs...
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...Advertising and Consumer Culture Wednesday 10:00-12:00; SW 319 MDSB03H3 Instructor: Dr. Stacy M. Jameson Email: stacy.jameson@utoronto.ca Office Hours: Wednesday 12:30-2:30PM; HW411A (or make an appointment to visit my office on the St. George Campus) This course introduces students to the study of advertising as social communication and provides a historical perspective on advertising's role in the emergence and perpetuation of “consumer culture.” The course examines the strategies employed to promote the circulation of goods as well as the impact of advertising on the creation of new habits and expectations in everyday life. Required Course Texts: Juliet Schor and D.B. Holt (eds), The Consumer Society Reader Joseph Turow and Mathew Mcallister, The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader *Additional PDFs posted on Blackboard Assignments and Grade Distribution: Participation, Reading Quizzes, and any In-Class Assignments 10% Essay One: Ad Analysis 15% Midterm Exam 20% Essay Two: Branding 25% Final Exam 30% Essay One: Ad Analysis This short essay (500-800 words; 12 point font, double spaced) will offer an analysis of a single print advertisement of your choice. You must situate your discussion of the ad within a historical context (what are some historical trends that set the stage for this form of commercial text?). You must then identify the central trope or strategy being used and explain its rhetorical function...
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...scientific truth to this? Could the addiction be embedded in the human genome? John Crabbe and Justin Rhodes invite you to study their 10 years of research. Taking mice and making them alcohol-dependent, studying their human-like tendencies; alcohol tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, and voluntarily drinking alcohol and in some instances doing extra work for the tipple intoxicant. Using methods of genetic engineering, gene expression profiling and quantitative locus mapping, the two colleagues are equipped to haunt down the chromosome and location where alcoholism lay. With the genome being so outstandingly large, can a gene for alcoholism be merely pinpointed? After years of trying the scientists come closer then anyone before them, but it is Dr. Tamara J. Philips who furthers the journey and exploration. New strategies are needed to stop and treat this disease; a location in the genome is imminent upon us. For centuries, alcoholism has been destroying many lives. The act of an addiction to something as harmful has alcoholism demolished families, relationships, and one’s own body. Alcohol on average is responsible for 100,000 deaths in America per year, whether it is from drunk-driving accidents, health problems, or various others means (Harwood, 1992). Children of addicts often feel isolated or depressed, because they tend to think the problem with their addictive parent(s) is their fault. Friends of addicts begin to feel rejected, because addicts often will start decline...
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...capital, Abuja. To survive, many Nigerians have their own power plants, creating the world's highest concentration of small-scale generators. Two-thirds of all electricity is produced in basements and backyards, at a cost of $13 billion a year. Generator merchants say the government is their best client. Some have set up steel plants to keep up with demand. One has 3,000 workers assembling the grunting machines. All this could change if the privatisation scheme succeeds. It aims to raise $3.5 billion a year and boost the power supply 13-fold over a decade. The government is offering to guarantee some bank loans and may cap the interest at 7%. At a recent conference in Abuja Mr Jonathan wooed hundreds of investors, including executives from Goldman Sachs and General Electric. Other African leaders are watching closely, sensing that this may prove to be a test bed for the continent. Some, though not all (see article), are asking what alternatives there are to growing dependence on Chinese investment. Like most of its neighbours, Nigeria is making big infrastructure deals with...
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...Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530792-4 ISBN-10: 0-19-530792-5 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For Chaille Bianca and Vivienne Lael and William Grant who says he wants to be an investment banker ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As a f i r s t - t i m e au t h o r , I have many people to thank. Luckily for the reader, most of them are current and former employees of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley who would prefer not to be cited. Their support and insight were invaluable to this enterprise. For early encouragement and guidance I must also thank Clare Reihill at Harper Collins, Brian Kempner and Peter Kaplan at the New York Observer, L. Gordon Crovitz...
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...Domenick Luongo Fin 635: Dr. Wong 5/4/15 The Great Recession: The Financial Crisis of 2008 Table of Contents: I. Introduction......................................3 II. Cause & Effect of the Housing Bubble..............3 III. Financial Industry................................5 IV. Global Contagion..................................6 a. European Sovereign Debt Crisis of 2007-2008.....7 V. LIBOR.............................................8 b. LIBOR & the Crisis in Lending...................8 VI. Unemployment......................................9 VII. United States Stock Market.......................10 VIII. Laws & Resolutions...............................10 c. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer.......11 Protection Act Timeline d. Dodd-Frank Wall Street & Reform Consumer.......11 Protection Act e. European Laws & Resolutions....................11 IX. Conclusion.......................................12 Introduction The financial crisis of 2007-2008 is considered to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression in 1929. Not only were some of the largest firms in the world threatened but also, the normal lives of everyday people faced great challenges as the entire financial market and banking industry was damaged. The prevention of the folding of these firms was backed with bailouts from national governments and banks. The crisis was the cause of business declines...
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...CRIMES AND RESPONSES ARGOSY UNIVERSITY INTRODUCTION TO CORRECTIONS Andrew MacDuffie On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson was accounted for missing from the Modesto, California home she imparted to Scott. She was eight months pregnant with a due date of February 10, 2003, and they had wanted to name the child kid Conner. The definite date and reason for her demise were never decided. Peterson at first reported her missing on Christmas Eve, and the story immediately pulled in across the country media interest. Modesto police did not quickly recognize Scott Peterson as a suspect, to a great extent in light of the fact that Laci's family and companions kept up their confidence in his honesty amid the month tailing her disappearance. Eventually, police became more suspicious because of irregularities in his story. On January 17, it got to be realized that he had various extramarital affairs, most as of late with a back rub advisor named Amber Frey. She drew nearer police about Peterson, whom she had recently started to date, subsequent to finding he was really hitched to a missing lady. Right now, Laci's family reported that they had withdrawn their backing of him. They later said that they were rankled not by the issue, but rather that he had told Frey that he'd "lost" Laci and that he would be spending his first...
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...Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil university Department of business management SubjecT: - INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Assignment ON:-BALANCE OF PAYMENT Submmited TO:-prof. NEETU SHARMA Submmietd by YASHWANT MULUK ROLL No: 25 Definition of 'Balance Of Payments - BOP' A record of all transactions made between one particular country and all other countries during a specified period of time. BOP compares the dollar difference of the amount of exports and imports, including all financial exports and imports. A negative balance of payments means that more money is flowing out of the country than coming in, and vice versa. Balance of payments may be used as an indicator of economic and political stability. For example, if a country has a consistently positive BOP, this could mean that there is significant foreign investment within that country. It may also mean that the country does not export much of its currency. This is just another economic indicator of a country's relative value and, along with all other indicators, should be used with caution. The BOP includes the trade balance, foreign investments and investments by foreigners. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BALANCE OF INDIAN PERSPECTIVE Uses of funds, such as for imports or to invest in foreign countries, are recorded as negative or deficit items. When all components of the BOP accounts are included they must sum to zero with no overall surplus or deficit. For example, if a country is importing more...
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...Discuss the importance of good crime scene management and the maintenance of sample integrity. This paper will firstly define the five building blocks, procedures and protocols that underpin good crime scene management. Secondly, the paper will argue the two most important factors that enable good crime scene management and sample integrity with reference to the highly publicised cases of OJ Simpson and Amanda Knox. Thirdly the paper will conclude to explain how good crime scene management and sample integrity is essential to enable successful convictions. A ‘crime scene’, refers to the primary or secondary area in which a suspected crime has taken place where physical evidence can be obtained. Such areas include indoor or outdoor locations, vehicles or persons as noted by Jackson and Jackson (2011). Upon identifying a crime scene one is presented with a myriad of information and questions. In order to obtain the answers and evidence the crime scene presents that may lead to a successful future conviction(s), there are a number of important principals, procedures and methods that must be stringently followed and managed by the police’s criminal investigative team. As Jackson and Jackson (2011, p.15) has noted, “The way in which scenes of crime are managed and recorded, and how the physical and digital evidence is located, collected, packaged, labelled and stored, are all fundamental to the success of subsequent forensic examinations.” The main objective of the crime...
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...Alyssa Hofmann Dr. Nathan Blank POLS 1000 September 20, 2014 Ronald Reagan 1980 Presidential Election Ronald Reagan was a jack of all trades. President Reagan wanted the best for the American people. He didn’t want Americans to be so reliant on the government. This started the innovative program called the Reagan Revolution. While in college Ronald Reagan became interested in acting, but instead decided to become a radio sports announcer. He eventually moved to Chicago where he became the announcer for the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Reagan was in California with the Cubs for spring training and was screened by Warner Brothers and won a contract. He then appeared in 53 films. Granted not all of his films were great ones, but he did do very well and went after what he wanted. Some of the films he starred in were actually used against him during the campaign. They made fun of him because he was in a movie with a monkey. After Reagan’s acting career took off, he became more interested in politics and decided to run for governor of California in 1966, winning by a margin of one millions votes. Some people tended to disagree with the way he was running the state because he raised the state’s taxes, but he also lowered the state’s debt. Even through this controversy he was reelected as governor in 1970. Most Democrats laughed at Reagan running for governor because of some of his movies, and because his costar was a chimp in some of them. In 1980 Ronald Reagan was...
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