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Resisting corporate corruption : cases in practical ethics from Enron through the financial crisis /

"Resisting Corporate Corruption teaches business ethics in a manner very different from the philosophical and legal frameworks that dominate graduate schools. The book offers twenty-eight case studies and nine essays that cover a full range of business practice, controls and ethics issues. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arbogast, Stephen V., 1948- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Beverly, MA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; Scrivener Publishing LLC, 2017.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Enron Corp. > Corrupt practices > Case studies.
Business ethics.
Industrial management > Moral and ethical aspects.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 > Case studies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Enron Cases. Case 1: Enron Oil Trading (A): Untimely Problems in Valhalla
  • Essay 1: How to Do an Ethics Case Study
  • Case 2: Enron Oil Trading (B): An Opening for Enron Audit?
  • Essay 2: How a Corporation Becomes Corrupt
  • Case 3: Enter Mark-to-Market: Exit Accounting Integrity?
  • Essay 3: Necessary Ammunition: Economic Rationales for Financial Control
  • Case 4: Adjusting the Forward Curve in the Backroom
  • Case 5: Enron's SPEs: A Vehicle too Far?
  • Case 6: Court Date Coming in California?
  • Case 7: New Counsel for Andy Fastow
  • Case 8: Nowhere to Go with the 'Probability of Ruin'
  • Case 9: Lay Back ... and Say What?
  • Case 10: Whistleblowing Before Imploding in Accounting Scandals
  • Essay 4: Resisting Corporate Corruption: The Enron Legacy
  • Essay 5: Underappreciated Origins of the Financial Crisis
  • A Personal Memoir
  • The Financial Crisis Cases. Case 1: Seeking a Sustainable Business Model at Goldman Sachs
  • Case 2: Juggling Public Policy, Politics and Profits at Fannie Mae
  • Case 3: Should Countrywide Join the Subprime 'Race to the Bottom'?
  • Case 4: Subprime Heading South at Bear Stearns Asset Management
  • Case 5: Ratings Integrity vs. Revenues at Moody's Investors Services
  • Case 6: Admission of Material Omission? Citigroup's SIVs and Subprime Exposure
  • Case 7: Facing Reputational Risk on Goldman's ABACUS 2007-AC1
  • Case 8: Time to Drop the Hammer on AIG's Controls?
  • Case 9: Write to Rubin?
  • Pressure on Underwriting Standards at Citigroup
  • Case 10: Lehman Brothers Repo 105
  • Essay 6: Wall Street and the Crisis
  • Causes, Contributions and Problems to Fix
  • The Post-Crisis Cases
  • Reforms, Resistance, Continuing Realities. Case 1: Morgan Stanley Seeks a Sustainable Business Model after the Financial Crisis
  • Case 2: Back to the Future on Goldman Sachs Reputational Risk
  • Case 3: 'Take Customer Cash to Survive?' Compliance and Chaos at MF Global
  • Case 4: Fix the LIBOR Fix?
  • Case 5: Too Big to Know What's Going on at Banamex?
  • Case 6: Take CitiMortgage to the Feds?
  • Case 7: Chipping Away at Dodd-Frank's Volcker Rule?
  • Essay 7: 'And the Young Shall be Thrown Under the Bus'
  • Lessons in Resisting Unethical Conduct from Enron Through the Financial Crisis
  • Essay 8: Resisting Corporate Corruption, 2017
  • Improved Conditions, Unresolved Issues
  • A Note on Blogs and Law Firms
  • A Note on Sources
  • Index
  • The Financial Crisis Cases
  • The Post-Financial Crisis Cases.